Speaking of Asian fonts, does anyone know of CJK character sets that can be loaded via CDN à la Google Fonts -- for example, Google's Noto CJK Simplified Chinese fonts?
The New Wave of Indian Type
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#12Side note: I didn't know Google had their own TLD. Is this new? Seems weird that an organization has that ability to do that.
You could do it, it just took $185,000 per application ( https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/agb ) and a super involved process. Edit: s/can/could (thanks to child commenter).
> You can do it, it just takes $185,000 per application [...] and a super involved process.
And when you say “super involved”, keep in mind that part of the required process is to travel back in time to before April 2012, because “The application window for the first application round closed in April 2012. Comprehensive reviews of the program are currently underway to assess its performance in meeting intended objectives. These reviews will inform ongoing discussions with the ICANN community to determine when a second round will take place.” [0]
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#13People very strongly underestimate the impact on the net once many people who were hitherto disconnected, finally come online. Provided they realize there is a greater web beyond facebook and the various trap gardens.
how is this related to the topic and not down voted?
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#15Side note: I didn't know Google had their own TLD. Is this new? Seems weird that an organization has that ability to do that.
They've added it for over 3 years now, you can read more about it here: https://icannwiki.org/.google blog.google is used pretty often.
Waiting for google.google to become a thing
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#16Nice to see lot of Tamil love in there.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've added it for over 3 years now, you can read more about it here: https://icannwiki.org/.google blog.google is used pretty often.
Waiting for google.google to become a thing
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#18> The language and script change every five hundred miles
Huh, somebody is making a vast over-simplification, presumably in a well-intentioned attempt to package this in a way the Western mind can comprehend. Which frankly is futile. India is much more diverse than that.
In my youth I spent some time bumming around Saurashtra, a region in Gujarat state that's about 150 miles square. Nearly 50 languages are indigenous to that one region alone. Not dialects. Languages. It's wonderful, but nuts.
That was almost 20 years ago; no doubt it's more homogenous now, which is sad to think about. A century ago nearly 80 languages were spoken there, so linguistic diversity has been declining fast. Any effort to preserve it deserves applause.
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#19Speaking of Asian fonts, does anyone know of CJK character sets that can be loaded via CDN à la Google Fonts -- for example, Google's Noto CJK Simplified Chinese fonts?
The unfortunate problem is that any one of these fonts increases the amount of data your page has to load by 8 megabytes.
I don't think there's a good solution to CJK web fonts yet. If one existed, I think it would need to involve a font rendering technology where character shapes can be generated from strokes and radicals, instead of the literal shape of every character having to appear separately in the font.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've added it for over 3 years now, you can read more about it here: https://icannwiki.org/.google blog.google is used pretty often.
Maybe I've just never really noticed before. Maybe a case of glancing and just imagining the `.com` after.
It was pretty gradual. For a while the only public-facing domain was elgoog.google which I think started as an April Fool's joke.