Fix casing of Cherokee UTF-8 text.
michael-conrad opened this issue · comments
Fix casing of Cherokee UTF-8 text.
The Cherokee script became bicameral from Unicode 8.0 released in June 2015.
The Cherokee Supplement covers all the small letters in the syllabary.
I’m planning to develop a bespoke TextPipe filter to implement this task.
a) What is the license on Galvji?
b) The source text is not HTML. It is converted to HTML. It uses a combining underscore to mark the caps internally.
c) I'm not sure about broad support for displaying proper bicameral Cherokee.
d) I don't think any of the FreeFonts have been updated for years on end…
Oops! Just observed that Code2000 doesn’t support the small letters in the Supplement.
Galvji does support them.
The license is Non-commercial. Not yet found contact details for commercial use of Galvji.
Aside: I’m a volunteer for the CrossWire Bible Society.
Which set of files contain the source text with the combining underscores?
I’ve looked at the index.md file for (eg) 2 John, but I didn’t spot any instances of
U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE
Unless somehow these are hidden when viewed from my iPad Mini 4.
Suggestion
The bicameral text might best be included as an extra line for each verse.
That would permit the standard large letters to still be viewed, even if the user didn’t have a suitable font installed for the small letters in the Cherokee Supplement.
The Google font Noto Sans Cherokee supports the Cherokee Supplement, but it doesn’t support the Latin letters in the Sequoyah transliteration!
Rather disappointing to find that.
The Unicode Pad Pro app for iPadOS & iOS lists only Galvji and Unifont Medium as capable of displaying the letters in the Cherokee Supplement.
Unifont is only really a crude fallback option.
Which set of files contain the source text with the combining underscores?
I’ve looked at the index.md file for (eg) 2 John, but I didn’t spot any instances of
U+0332 COMBINING LOW LINE
Unless somehow these are hidden when viewed from my iPad Mini 4.
Sorry, that file is in a different location and is missing from this repo. I will have to correct that at a later date.