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by qingcharles 3 days ago
Wow, thank you for this response. This is actually fascinating and frustrating at the same time. So Bulgarian uses the same Unicode points, but also uses the language/culture metadata to let the font know which set to use.

I'm building out a multi-lingual wiki and just about to start adding Cyrillic support, and this really helps me understand that there is more research I need to do to support other Cyrillic languages.
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raphlinus 3 days ago
Any time, friend. Your basic move is to set the lang metadata accurately and choose a font that does have these style differences implemented in the loca table.

Best of luck and feel free to reach out if you have more specific questions.

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qingcharles 3 days ago
So I went to check on the font that I'd chosen for my European/Latin/Cyrillic body text, and I guess I got very lucky with my pick:

https://github.com/googlefonts/literata

I'm already strict with marking the html pages with the correct lang and culture tags etc, but I'll be double-checking everything now. Thank you again for educating me :)

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