Comments on: Announcing Speakeasy: A new open-source language tool from Typekit https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/ News about Typekit Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: Matt Colyer https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1935 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:04:25 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1935 In reply to Behdad Esfahbod.

Thanks behdad, we weren’t aware that fontconfig had already gathered this information. We’ll take a closer look.

]]> By: Peter Kahoun https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1934 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:26:48 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1934 Similarly to Michaël’s comment, you also have problems with recognizing font supporting Czech. List of czech letters is e.g. here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_alphabet. Thanks!

]]> By: Behdad Esfahbod https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1933 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:14:38 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1933 Have you guys considered using fontconfig’s orth database? That provides the exact same data you are building here and supports a large number of languages already. Feel free to contact me if you need any help making it work for you.

Cheers,
behdad

]]> By: Michaël https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1932 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:12:50 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1932 Many characters are missing for French, such as “æ, ù, Ç, ç, à, Ä, ä, ë, Ï, ï, Ö, ö, Ü, ü, Ÿ, ÿ, â, é, ê, è, Î, î, Ô, ô, Û, û and ñ”. As you can see, almost all of them use diacritical marks.

The most important in this list are “Ç, ç, â, à, é, ê, ë, è, Î, î, Ô, ô, û and ù”. Without them, you cannot write French properly.

]]> By: James Bonham https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1931 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:51:42 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1931 Nice. I like it a lot, very useful. The Danish character set is basically a subset of the Swedish one. So you might as well copy it and add Danish support! 🙂

]]> By: Christoph https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1930 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:59:59 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1930 Great news!
For German › is missing.

]]> By: Josef Richter https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1929 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:02:32 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1929 This is BIG news for us in eastern europe. Thanks guys. Loading full charset was not optimal.

]]> By: Chris Roberts https://blog.typekit.com/2010/10/28/announcing-speakeasy-a-new-open-source-language-tool-from-typekit/#comment-1928 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:12:09 +0000 http://blog.typekit.com/?p=1730#comment-1928 To set the record strait, Dynamic Subsetting is not a “future direction”, but a current reality and a feature offered within The Fonts.com Web Fonts solution. It’s very fast. Depending on the page content, Dynamic Subsetting pages serving East Asian scripts can load even faster than Latin only pages. We are currently serving Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts, and have seen no difficulty supporting dynamically created content. Try it for yourself for free at http://webfonts.fonts.com

Thanks,

Chris Roberts

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