Re: RTL characters in Ahem

On 03/03/2015 12:56, Koji Ishii wrote:
> Depends on what you need, you may be able to use Ken's CSS Orientation
> test font[1]. The name is not intuitive, and the blog says only "2050
> glyphs", but he's talking about the number of physical glyphs.
>
> Glyphs are mapped to almost all the Unicode range, 60K or 100K, I
> don't remember exactly and can't find reference, but in short, you
> could consider it's 1em square glyph mapped to all possible Unicode
> code points. I find it extremely useful for testing CJK justification
> for instance.
>
> If you need different glyphs, there's a half-width version, so
> combining these two and Ahem using unicode-range might give you a bit
> of variations.
>
> [1] http://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2013/05/css-orientation-test-opentype-fonts.html
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
>> would it be possible to update the Ahem font to include a RTL character
>> (such as א)?  (and if we're feeling ambitious, perhaps some arabic digits,
>> but a standard RTL character is most needed.)
>>
>> it would make bidi testing easier.

Thanks Koji.  I played with it a little.

I may find a use for it, but I'd still prefer to update Ahem.  Reasons 
include, but are not limited to, it's often useful to have blanks where 
the spaces are, as Ahem does, and it's particularly useful to have the 
wall-to-wall painting of the space that Ahem offers, so that you can 
compare shapes simply.  I also found that it doesn't support script such 
as arabic or complex scripts, where the glyphs change according to 
context - in Ken's font you just see the arabic text in a different font.

But good to know about.

cheers,
ri



Also, i'll probably uninstall it because it seems to be taking a higher 
priority than other fonts on my system for certain scripts when no font 
is specified for the page, which is annoying. For example, i can no 
longer see Thai Tham text, even though I have a font for it - all i see 
are the boxes with triangles :(  Maybe there's a way to prioritise fonts 
on your system, but i'm not aware how?

Received on Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:23:59 UTC