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bug #51745: Wishlist: Missing lowercase Cherokee characters and archaic syllable mv

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Mon 14 Aug 2017 01:35:08 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  character range Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  glyph(s) missing Status:  Postponed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  * 2012-05-03
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Sun 02 Apr 2023 11:14:09 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Current (nonrelease) builds of FreeSerif already contain lowercase and archaic Cherokee syllables. Characters still need to be drawn for FreeSans and FreeMono.

Adolfo Jayme <fitojb>
Mon 14 Aug 2017 02:40:15 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Yeah.  That's a job for another day.
Thanks, Anonymous!

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Mon 14 Aug 2017 01:35:08 AM UTC, original submission:  

Lowercase Cherokee characters were added in Unicode 8.0. [1, 2, 3] The lowercase is mostly Cyrillic-like in that the characters are simply smaller versions of the capital characters; however, in some syllables you can add subtle ascenders and descenders to reduce visual ambiguity or to avoid an excess of busyness. [1]

The only FOSS font I'm aware of that provides the requested characters is Noto Sans Cherokee (alpha) [4], though that is more of a slab-serif design. A complete Cherokee sans is Gadugi version 1.10 [5], however that is both proprietary and only provided in the latest Windows 10.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14064r-n4537r-cherokee.pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_(Unicode_block)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Supplement
[4] https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts-alpha
[5] https://en.fontke.com/font/18642669/charset/2661/

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