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Noto font fixes broken Myanmar text rendering
Original: Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text https://www.datocms.com/blog/handling-less-common-scripts #
A technical write-up explains how the Noto font project got its name — short for 'no tofu', the boxes shown when a font lacks a glyph — and digs into fixing dotted-circle rendering problems in Myanmar script. The piece covers why less common scripts are so hard to display correctly and what it takes to make complex text layouts work properly across platforms.
Why now: Developers and typography enthusiasts are interested in the rarely-discussed challenges of rendering minority scripts like Burmese on the web.
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- Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text https://www.datocms.com/blog/handling-less-common-scripts # HackerNews # Tech # Unicode · hackernews@robot.villas · 3
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