Talk:Adlam script

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The font used on Wikipedia does not support the ADLaM characters. How do pages for other scripts handle this? What is the best way to get the characters rendered on this page? Do we have to add an image of the properly rendered characters? --Hurtstotouchfire (talk) 22:52, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

At various points, the script is referred to as

• Adlam
• ADLaM
• adlam

Either the reason for the choice needs to be clearly spelled out, or one should be used throughout.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've corrected all instances to ADLaM except: 1) within urls I've left it fully lowercase, 2) I don't know how to change the page title to use the camel-case or whatever you call that. I went with ADLaM basically as an executive decision to make it consistent, but also because that's what was done in the Microsoft article, which will likely bring lots of good exposure to this page. --Hurtstotouchfire (talk) 22:47, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a correction. The name may be an acronym by origin, but the

WP:COMMONNAME of the script is "Adlam". See for example the discussion of the Adlam script in the Unicode Standard. BabelStone (talk) 18:07, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply

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I've read the Microsoft.com story, and found it very interesting, even inspiring. This WP article could certainly benefit from additional info, such as MS's developing Ebrima to support African scripts.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, I'll try to work up a checklist of things to add that cite the MS article. I think we need some other good sources though if anyone has suggestions. --Hurtstotouchfire (talk) 22:47, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The greatest hurdle, though, is that the page is almost entirely made up of charts. This likely means it runs counter to the policy that Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, textbook, or scientific journal. In order to be an encyclopedic article, there really needs to be more prose content dealing with Adlam script, the underlying need that led to it, its creation and creators, its uptake and adoption, its usage and expansion, maybe mention of some print publications and websites that use it, and so forth. Without a much greater proportion of such content, the instructive content is vulnerable to deletion.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article says that the question marks and exclamation marks appear at the beginning and end of the sentence. It has no reference. However page 14 uses

𞤮𞤑𞠀𞤣𞤲𞤮𞥅𞤸𞠀𞤯𞤢𞤲𞤭𞤦𞥆 𞤭𞤶؟

(I copied from the PDF but the order is altered.).I It starts with ⟨𞤑⟩ and ends with ⟨؟⟩. Which is the real usage? -- Error (talk) 00:05, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I gave a provisional answer and reference myself. -- Error (talk) 10:50, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The number is written right-to-left, meaning that if I type "three" first, and then "two" (so the "two" is on the left, and the "three" is on the right) -- so it can be simply "thirty two"? Or is it "three and twenty", meaning "twenty two"?

הראש (talk) 16:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's 32. The Adlam digits work just like Arabic numerals (0-9) except the direction is reversed. In your example it's a 3 in the tens position followed by a 2 in the ones position reading from right to left. DRMcCreedy (talk) 20:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]