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Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 3, 2012 23:17 UTC (Tue) by yann.morin.1998 (guest, #54333)
Parent article: Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Happy New Year!

As usual, a good article by our esteemed editor! :-)

I like readings those predictions. There's always some background to back them up, so they are far from meaningless, even when in the end, some do not happen, or are weirdly distorted by an unforesseable twist of events.

> So, soon, it may be possible to find text like [...]

Provided proper fonts are installed, of course! ;-)

Live long and prosper! ;-)


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Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 4, 2012 14:20 UTC (Wed) by leemgs (guest, #24528) [Link] (4 responses)

Happy New Year.
In korean, "새해 복 많이 받으세요." hehe

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 4, 2012 16:12 UTC (Wed) by yann.morin.1998 (guest, #54333) [Link] (3 responses)

> 새해 복 많이 받으세요.

Now, I can read that! ;-)

I installed all available fonts in Debian. More than 800MiB of fonts installed. Geez... :-)

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 4, 2012 20:52 UTC (Wed) by sciurus (guest, #58832) [Link] (1 responses)

"apt-get install xfonts-unifont ttf-unifont" was good enough for me.

Unicode fonts

Posted Jan 12, 2012 18:00 UTC (Thu) by midg3t (guest, #30998) [Link]

Thank you! I've always been embarrassed to be running such a modern OS and yet only see a tiny subset of Unicode characters on the internet.

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 7, 2012 20:10 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

hehe, fun to hear that as my mobile phone (aging N900) has no problems at all...

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 4, 2012 17:27 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (2 responses)

Speaking of fonts, anyone have a Mayan font? :-)

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 9, 2012 18:46 UTC (Mon) by lambda (subscriber, #40735) [Link] (1 responses)

The Mayan alphabet isn't yet well enough understood to be standardized in Unicode. They can read most inscriptions by now, but don't yet have a good handle on what are separate characters and what are different ways of writing the same character to do a good proposal for a Unicode encoding. There is a tentative reservation of space for Mayan hieroglyph in the SMP, but there isn't even yet a tentative proposal to fill it out.

Beyond that, rendering Mayan will be a royal pain in the ass, and would require either special rendering support or an advanced font technology like AAT or Graphite, neither of which is widely available. Mayan hieroglyphs are written in blocks of two to four glyphs, with particular layout rules, and sometimes two glyphs were merged into one. These blocks were arranged in pairs of two side by side reading right to left, and those pairs laid out in vertical columns from top to bottom, which were themselves laid out left to right.

Given that Mayan hieroglyphs were either carved in stone for ceremonial purposes, or written as calligraphy, there are many artistic flourishes and a lack of standardization that a printing press brings. So, while it will probably eventually be encoded in Unicode, it will take a lot of research to decode all of the glyphs and become certain enough of the structure to agree on a standardized encoding.

Linux at the end of the world (our 2012 predictions)

Posted Jan 13, 2012 17:39 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

And on December 22nd, everyone will precipitously stop giving a crap anyway, so...

Ob: http://xkcd.com/998/


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