Re:Intel One Mono
by adontz on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:53PM
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It's really sad this is just another [Extended] Latin only font. One more of all these beautiful fonts I cannot use because I have to edit files in three languages. Maybe 1 in 100 developers is visually impaired, but 75 in 100 developers are not native English speakers.
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What other languages are you writing in? Latin script covers a lot more languages than just English, assuming it supports at least some diacritics. English is not the only language using latin script, so the point about 75 in 100 developers not being native english speakers is inconsequential.
There is a lot of knowledge required to make a font that covers all sorts of scripts, especially with constraints like it being monospaced. It's not impossible, but it'd be a massive and expensive undertaking with arguably little benefit.
Georgian and Russian. Georgian is hopeless, I'm really just whining into the void. DejaVu is my only option to make text editor not look like a movie style ransom letter.
Instead of complaining about an American company releasing something that is useful to Americans, perhaps you should complain that companies in your country are not releasing things that are useful to people in your country.
I really do not consider Intel a US or US-focused company.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263560/net-revenue-of-in...
Re:Intel One Mono
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @05:38PM
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So the obvious question is why those 75% aren't making fonts?