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[Adolfo Jayme <670758@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Project changed: ubuntu-font-family => fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: later => None

** Changed in: fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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Title:
  Expansion: IPA and Combining Diacritcals to cover more Latin-based
  African languages

Status in fonts-ubuntu package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Many characters used in African languages orthographies a currently missing from the Ubuntu font family.
  Some are actually present in uppercase, for example Ɛ U+0190 is present but ɛ U+025B is missing.
  Combining diacritics (U+0300, etc. and U+1DC4...1DC7) are also needed as many African languages use them.

  For the combining diacritics, OpenType GPOS features need to be added
  for correct positioning.

  Examples:
  ɛ U+025B and ɔ U+0254 are used in the official alphabets of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Tchad, and Cameroon, as well as other alphabets.
  U+300 is used in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet (in Yoruba ẹ́ is used), or in any language using accented characters not in Unicode as precomposed form.

  The ANLoc (African localisation) project has a list of characters uses in orthographies of African languages :
  http://anloc-fonts.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=anloc-fonts/anloc-fonts;a=blob_plain;f=data/charlist.txt;hb=HEAD
  and a list of accented characters (not available as precomposed characters, i.e. using combining diacritics)
  http://anloc-fonts.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=anloc-fonts/anloc-fonts;a=blob_plain;f=data/comblist.txt;hb=HEAD

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