Hello niche question twitter, can anyone recommend a graphics program that has sufficiently deep Unicode support that it will let me export a png containing multiocular o ꙮ in a text box?
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Replying to @GretchenAMcC
I suspect this isn't a problem with "unicode support", this is bc graphics tools don't mess with fonts the way browsers do (it wouldn't do for text in graphics to change fonts based on the system!) but this means they don't do font fallback, so you have to find the font yourself
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Replying to @ManishEarth @GretchenAMcC
Tip: right click->inspect some paragraph containing a symbol on the web, go to the "fonts" panel in the devtools that pop up, and try each font.
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Replying to @ManishEarth @GretchenAMcC
RTL support in graphics tools is far sketchier, sadly. In case your tool is actually buggy around this: I've never had issues with this in Gimp, try that
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Replying to @ManishEarth
Alas, figma says that it does font fallback and also says it supports Noto, and yet manages to not support a whole bunch of symbols that are in Noto ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Replying to @GretchenAMcC @ManishEarth
Hi! I’m at Figma. Please us/me know what symbols don‘t work for you?
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(I know it’s been a long time – I only learned of this tweet now. :·) )
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Replying to @mwichary @ManishEarth
Here's what a draft looked like in figma (screenshot), as compared with the version we made in a different program where we got the symbols to work (link: https://www.redbubble.com/people/lingthusiasm/works/38719402-esoteric-symbols-scarf-unicode-special-characters-black-white … ). I think the blanks are symbols not displaying, which is a bad fallback.pic.twitter.com/1STDki3u5b
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Thank you! If it was possible to share the link to the Figma file (my DMs are open), that’d be very helpful.
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