Deseret Alphabet

GP lisper · External Since: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 16

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

Table of Glyphs

What configuration, or X charset do I need for Opera to see these
characters?

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Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen · External Since: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 238

GP lisper <spambait.RemoveThis@CloudDancer.com> writes:

> Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
>
> Table of Glyphs
>
> What configuration, or X charset do I need for Opera to see these
> characters?
>
>

You'll need a font that supports it encoded in a way that opera
understands. However, I don't think opera really supports characters
outside the basic multilingual plane yet (i.e. unicode codepoints 0
through 0xffff). In principle, it might work if you use xft as font
renderer (which you probably do), and it transparently deals with
surrogate pairs. You'll still need a font that xft understands and
that contains the glyphs...

eirik

David W. Hodgins · External Since: Dec 04, 2005 Posts: 251

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:26:26 -0400, GP lisper <spambait.DeleteThis@CloudDancer.com> wrote:

> Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
> Table of Glyphs
> What configuration, or X charset do I need for Opera to see these
> characters?

I'd never heard of Deseret before, but decided to check it out.
I restarted the xfs after installint the ttf fonts from
http://www.wazu.jp/downloads/damase_v.2.zip and
http://www.fontage.com/_zips/deseret.zip

As per http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/operadeseret.png
opera will display the glyphs.

From running opera --debugfont, it appears to be
using the glyphs from damase.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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GP lisper · External Since: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 16

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:08:32 -0400, <dwhodgins.TakeThisOut@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:26:26 -0400, GP lisper <spambait.TakeThisOut@CloudDancer.com> wrote:
>
>> Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
>> Table of Glyphs
>> What configuration, or X charset do I need for Opera to see these
>> characters?
>
> I'd never heard of Deseret before, but decided to check it out.
> I restarted the xfs after installint the ttf fonts from
> http://www.wazu.jp/downloads/damase_v.2.zip and
> http://www.fontage.com/_zips/deseret.zip
>
> As per http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/operadeseret.png
> opera will display the glyphs.
>
> From running opera --debugfont, it appears to be
> using the glyphs from damase.

I knew nothing of it until I stumbled on the webpage, but the
'browsers that can view' triggered the post.

I added your cited fonts, but glyphs 0x10426, 0x10427, 0x1044E,
0x1044F still show as squares.

Otherwise, we can make some noise that Opera works too.

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Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen · External Since: Apr 02, 2004 Posts: 238

"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins.DeleteThis@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:26:26 -0400, GP lisper <spambait.DeleteThis@CloudDancer.com> wrote:
>
>> Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet
>> Table of Glyphs
>> What configuration, or X charset do I need for Opera to see these
>> characters?
>
> I'd never heard of Deseret before, but decided to check it out.
> I restarted the xfs after installint the ttf fonts from
> http://www.wazu.jp/downloads/damase_v.2.zip and
> http://www.fontage.com/_zips/deseret.zip
>
> As per http://www.ody.ca/~dwhodgins/operadeseret.png
> opera will display the glyphs.
>
> From running opera --debugfont, it appears to be
> using the glyphs from damase.
>
> Regards, Dave Hodgins
>

Nice Smile

I wasn't too sure that would work...

eirik