Capital additions to Georgian typography
summary
Unicode accepts Georgian uppercase as of 10 May and the work documents how that is actually implemented: a 130-glyph set plus basic Latin, diacritics for Kartvelian languages, OpenType case mapping so the InDesign “change case” button produces true uppercase, and ccmp precomposites or lookup flags to ignore marks for kerning. Hinting is fixed (thanks to Knollenberg) so TTFs render cleanly, while keyboard choices remain: legacy shift maps or a new layout with Caps Lock for uppercase and a recommended OpenType case feature fallback for environments without full Unicode support.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:51Unicode
- 2:23Georgian script
- 4:47Mikael Kyani
- 5:21Table letters
- 5:44Uppercuts
- 6:21All caps
- 7:14Other approaches
- 9:20Diacritical marks
- 10:35Similarities
- 11:35Result
- 12:00Engineering
- 13:06Magic button
- 13:40Case feature
- 15:53No Unicode
- 17:15Diacritics
- 18:53Georgian keyboard
- 19:39Shift
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