Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

Posted Nov 14, 2013 9:50 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
Parent article: Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

Zopfli and Brotli? That's like mis-spelled "Zöpfli" (small braided bread) and "Brötli" (small bread) in swiss german. Sounds extremely stupid.

Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

Posted Nov 14, 2013 10:40 UTC (Thu) by Shugyousha (subscriber, #93672) [Link]

As a fellow Swiss, I still think it's cute even without the umlauts.

Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

Posted Nov 14, 2013 14:17 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link] (2 responses)

Alakuijala and Szabadka are from Google's Zurich office, and yes, the names are both intentionally taken from breads. Someone asked about that on the W3C list. Love it or hate it, "compress" and "deflate" were already taken....

Nate

Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

Posted Nov 15, 2013 12:12 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link] (1 responses)

That a project concerned with /font/ issues still can't use a name going outside the ASCII range is somewhat depressing.

Are search engines unable to find "Brötli" if I search for "Brotli"?

Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

Posted Nov 24, 2013 15:01 UTC (Sun) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

It's probably more a problem of typing it than of displaying/storing it (not all platforms have good support for entering special characters on keyboards that have no "native" support for them).

Also, most programming languages still don't support non-ASCII identifiers, so in practice they would have to replace the special characters anyway...