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Tigrigna, Amharic and many other languages in Eritrea and Ethiopia use the Geez fonts. Can you tell me if these fonts are supported by Java?

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Tigrigna, Amharic and many other languages in Eritrea and Ethiopia use the Geez fonts. Can you tell me if these fonts are supported by Java?

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• I guess the short answer is that Java does not currently support Ethiopic or Ge’ez script. Java depends on the Unicode character set and currently, Java supports version 2.1 of Unicode. Ethiopic was not added to Unicode until version 3.0. We are working on support for Unicode 3.0 right now and expect it to be part of the next major release of Java (likely known as version 1.4). At that time, if your Ge’ez fonts are in the True Type format and contain a Unicode cmap table, you should be able to display languages like Tigrigna, Amharic and so on. Typing these languages, however, will require the use of an input method. We are not working on such an input method although there is an API that will allow you to write your own. While I’m not an expert in these languages, from what I do know I do not believe that writing such an input method would be difficult. After you can enter and display the Ethiopic scripts you will want locale support for the various languages and countries that use

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