Re: Android 5.1 ships with support for several minority scripts

Congrats!

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On Mar 14, 2015 03:09, "Roozbeh Pournader" <roozbeh_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> Android 5.1
> <http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2015/03/android-51-unwrapping-new-lollipop.html>,
> released earlier this week, has added support for 25 minority scripts. The
> wide coverage can be reproduced by almost everybody for free, thanks to the
> Noto <https://code.google.com/p/noto/> and HarfBuzz
> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/> projects, both of
> which are open source. (Android itself is open source too.)
>
> By my count, these are the new scripts added in Android 5.1: Balinese,
> Batak, Buginese, Buhid, Cham, Coptic, Glagolitic, Hanunnoo, Javanese, Kayah
> Li, Lepcha, Limbu, Meetei Mayek, Ol Chiki, Oriya, Rejang, Saurashtra,
> Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Thaana, and
> Tifinagh.
>
> (Android 5.0, released last year, had already added the Georgian lari,
> complete Unicode 7.0 coverage for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, and seven new
> scripts: Braille, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Cherokee, Gujarati,
> Gurmukhi, Sinhala, and Yi.)
>
> Note that different Android vendors and carriers may choose to ship more
> fonts or less, but Android One <http://www.android.com/one/> phones and
> most Nexus <http://www.google.com/nexus/> devices will support all the
> above scripts out of the box.
>
> None of this would have been possible without the efforts of Unicode
> volunteers who worked hard to encode the scripts in Unicode. Thanks to the
> efforts of Unicode, Noto, and HarfBuzz, thousands of communities around the
> world would can now read and write their language on smartphones and
> tablets for the first time.
>
>
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