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Re:Google Noto Fonts by lstamour on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:48AM (#8040622)
In their defense, when you click India and scroll down, it does say, "not supported yet". Which leads me to believe they picked both languages with few characters (or straightforward to render?) and those most common, and they'll get to the rest shortly. :)

Oriya appears to be quite complicated to render: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/oriya/intro....

Meanwhile, I wonder if this means we'll see OCR and ePubs for all kinds of scripts now; or if this will help enable Google Translate in more languages? ;-)

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Re:Google Noto Fonts by ultimoo on Thursday July 17, 2014 @12:37AM (#8046064)
"Oriya is similarly structured to Devanagari and is used to write the Oriya language in Indian state of Orissa."

Devanagri is what Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit use, so I am certain that it isn't any more complex to render than those languages.

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Re:Google Noto Fonts by soperj on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @11:55AM (#8042694)
Also maybe this was a %20 time thing and the programmer who started it just wanted to do those languages (probably because they couldn't be found elsewhere).
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Re:Google Noto Fonts by beamatronic on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @07:02PM (#8045111)
%20, the final frontier
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Re:Google Noto Fonts by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @05:59PM (#8044845)
I thought they didn't do 20% time anymore.
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Re:Google Noto Fonts by rictic on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @07:48PM (#8045250)
It's still a thing, though it does depend to some degree on one's manager.
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