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Different Languages #238

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nikusha37 opened this issue Mar 19, 2017 · 7 comments
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Different Languages #238

nikusha37 opened this issue Mar 19, 2017 · 7 comments

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@nikusha37
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Hello. Thank you for this great library.

The issue is that I am trying to create it from Georgian words (ქართული სიტყვები). Goergian has its own alphabet. But it is showing me rectangular images instead of words.

Can I do it with this library?

@amueller
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you just need to use a font that contains these characters.

@amueller
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I think it would be good to use a default font that covers "most languages" as much as possible, see #219 (comment)

@amueller
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also see discussion in #315 on arabic fonts.

@lingdoc
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lingdoc commented Apr 30, 2019

Incidentally, there's a ton of free unicode language fonts for multiple scripts in Google's Noto project here: https://www.google.com/get/noto/
And SIL has a bunch of free unicode fonts as well: https://scripts.sil.org/default (see also https://scripts.sil.org/SILFontList ) - some of these are specifically developed for languages like Burmese which have interesting character combining rules.

@amueller
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amueller commented May 2, 2019

@lingdoc yes I've looked into those a while ago. Unfortunately they are too big to include in the package (noto, that is). Also, they are per-language. I thought about combining several of the noto fonts into a single font to ship with wordcloud, but it would be hard to decide what to include, and Chinese is pretty big (and one of the most asked-for languages)

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lingdoc commented May 2, 2019

@amueller understood - I'm definitely not suggesting you include them directly in the package. The links themselves, though, might be useful resources to include in the documentation or on the landing page for users who want to create wordclouds for languages with a non-Roman font.

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amueller commented May 2, 2019 via email

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