Terence EdenSep 13, 2024

I've raised a bug with #AOSP about Android's lack of support for #Unicode.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366415133

There are loads of Noto fonts that Google is missing from the project. Which means a large swathe of missing languages, characters, and symbols.

I'll write up a full blog post soon with all the details. If you know anyone who works on Android at Google, please give them a nudge (after the weekend, obvs!)

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Dr Colin JacobsOct 7, 2024
Show threadTerence Eden

I've written up this #Android bug in more detail at:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/is-android-unicode-yet/

I'd really appreciate you sharing it with anyone you may know at Google, AOSP, or Noto.

Thanks!

Is Android Unicode Yet?

Google's Android platform has dreadful support for Unicode. Even the most recent Android versions are missing out on languages, characters, and symbols which were added to Unicode in the last decade. Back in 2013, Google created the "Noto" project. Its aim? To include "all the world's languages". They wanted to banish "tofu" - the little […]

Terence Eden’s Blog
Oct 7, 2024 at 11:44amWeb
Show threadStuart LangridgeOct 7, 2024
@Edent not any kind of actual help with the problem, but I poked at your table a little bit to show the number of years old each Android version was and that made scanning down the table quite a bit clearer: you can see that lots of them are very old and a few are not-that-old. Might be a useful thing to do to help people grasp the table more intuitively (especially if done a little more prettily than this quick bodge I did)
Show threadTerence EdenOct 7, 2024
@sil
Good plan. Will have a think.