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Re:Google Noto Fonts by scrollaway on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:31PM (#8040420)
I saw the article before and I too was deeply moved by it, but don't you think you could word this better so as not to make it sound so blasé? "Pah, no nastaliq, useless!" -- this is an amazing project.
Re:Google Noto Fonts by mynameisvlad on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:39PM (#8040441)
+1. It sounds incredibly condescending the way it's written right now. Like the omission of Nastaliq is a great tragedy and Google should be deeply ashamed.
Re:Google Noto Fonts by gioele on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:48AM (#8040625)
> Like the omission of Nastaliq is a great tragedy and Google should be deeply ashamed.

Well, the heading says «Beautiful and free fonts for all languages» and the OP noticed that it fails to include at least one important script/language combination.

Re:Google Noto Fonts by mynameisvlad on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @04:11AM (#8041050)
A. I wouldn't exactly call an almost-dead not-incredibly-commonly-used script "important". Especially when others, which are available on Noto, are more widely used.

B. There's much better ways of phrasing the request than the way it was written.

Re:Google Noto Fonts by sandGorgon on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @06:08AM (#8041339)
Re:Google Noto Fonts by mynameisvlad on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @03:13PM (#8043920)
First of all, I wouldn't call one specific use case proving that it isn't almost dead. Just because it's being used in one case, for Bollywood wedding songs, does not mean it isn't "almost dead". Secondly, it was by the OPs own admission that the language is dying.
Re:Google Noto Fonts by sandGorgon on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @03:20PM (#8043951)
true - except when that one usecase is a billion people. I'm just pointing out that there is a skewed worldview of asian countries.

My previous comment was in jest, but was fairly accurate in its portrayal of impact.

a far more cut and dry statistic is this [1] and this [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_India_by_Urdu_speaker... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Jang