Numerals? about merriweather HOT 8 CLOSED

Also on this topic, some European languages use superscript letters that aren’t in Unicode for typesetting ordinal numbers and some abbreviations. The OpenType feature ordn was designed for this.

The glyphs encoded at U+00BA º and U+00AA ª are the most common, but Spanish also uses superscript “er”, “as” and “os”, and English, of course, needs “st”, “nd”, “rd” and “th”, for example.

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All the small numbers are now in Merriweather. This needs to be pushed live after some tests are done. But they are now there. Unicodes should be automatic with the gLyphs sources.

I'll need to discuss with Google if they care about ordinal letters. They might. The thing is in english at least it is increasingly culturally uncommon to treat the “st”, “nd”, “rd” and “th”, with ordinals. Where as I don't think this is so for Spanish and we do already have Spanish support.

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I understand. I suppose once you get around to adding IPA support you might as well put the ordinals in. IPA requires a lot of superscript letters anyway, so there’s some overlap.

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Thank you! IPA support would be very useful for me.

I’ve actually been writing an email in my spare time about how to design the letters of the IPA, and what glyphs need special attention. It’ll probably be done today or tomorrow I think.

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Also, what do you know about support for African languages? There is some overlap with IPA.

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Small numbers fixed

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