Aug 30, 2021
The Mu computer now loads 140KB of Unicode glyphs from its system font

Unicode blocks now supported: latin, greek, cyrillic, armenian, hebrew, arabic, syriac, thaana, n'ko, indian (ISCII), sinhala, thai, lao, tibetan, myanmar, georgian (< U+1100)

Caveats:

  • No support for combining characters yet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character) This makes the other languages I know (Hindi, Tamil) well-nigh useless.
  • Unifont's glyphs for the non-Latin languages I know turn out to be quite spectacularly ugly.

A Qemu window showing a pidgin sentence in Hindi ('chhat kam bas sach' which I squint and translate as 'a low roof, that's the truth,' as close to a motto for Mu as I can get without _matras_ or combining characters).

Further down, a single word in Tamil ('nada' or 'walk')

This post is part of my Freewheeling Apps Devlog.

Comments gratefully appreciated. Please send them to me by any method of your choice and I'll include them here.

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