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Support of DIN 91379 (Unicode subset for Europe)

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Description

Support of DIN 91379 (Unicode subset for Europe)

Please support all letters and sequences of DIN 91379 "Characters and defined character sequences in Unicode for the electronic processing of names and data exchange in Europe"

Current rendering

Some letters and diacritics are missing or positioned incorrectly.
(Rendering using
hb-view (HarfBuzz) 2.8.1
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS)

latin_letters_all_FiraCode-Regular.pdf
latin_list_all_FiraCode-Regular.pdf

Rendering with Arimo

latin_letters_all_Arimo-Regular.pdf
latin_list_all_Arimo-Regular.pdf

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start with the DIN 91379 character and sequence list linked in the issue, then compare the attached FiraCode and Arimo rendering PDFs to identify missing or incorrectly positioned glyphs. Done means FiraCode supports all required letters and sequences and renders their diacritics correctly.

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Assessment

Domain
design, internationalization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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