Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Document Liberation Project flyer for translations

On 21/02/2023 18:44, Cristian Secară wrote:

> I forgot this: what is the point in keeping something aesthetically pleasing, but restricted to 'Western' Latin languages only ? 

Depending upon how one counts, between half and two thirds of the 
languages in current use, that have been reduced to a writing system, 
use the Latin Writing System. Rephrasing, roughly 1500 languages spoken 
today, use the Latin writing system.

Number two would be Cyrillic, which covers between 10% and 25% of the 
languages in current use, that have been reduced to a writing system.

In third place, it is a toss-up between CJKV and Arabic writing system.

In terms of number of speakers of languages that have been reduced to a 
writing system, the order is:
* Latin writing system;
* CJKV;
* Arabic writing system;
* Cyrillic writing system;
* Indus Valley writing systems;

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Technically, CJKV is ten different writing systems. For selecting fonts, 
treating them as the same writing system greatly simplifies the process.

>even then: year 2010 is somewhat more recent than Stone Age

Unicode 6.0 was released in October 2010. It covered 93 writing systems, 
with just under 100,000 glyphs. Pan-unicode font development is still 
trying to catch up with that standard.

Unicode 15.0 was released in September 2022. It covers 161 writing 
systems, with just shy of 150,000 glyphs.

jonathon

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