Materialdesign: script-*

[firehiros]

I have:

• [x] [Searched all issues](https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign/issues) to make sure there isn't a request for this icon.
• [x] [Searched the current library](https://materialdesignicons.com/) to make sure the icon doesn't exist.
• [x] Only requested a single icon (or a few near-identical ones) in this issue.

Usage

Provide some context of how your icon could be used.

Examples

Include any example images so we know what the icon should look like.

[JamesCoyle]

Please provide examples of what this would look like. Is there a specific symbol which represents kanji?

[MrGrigri]

I'm going to close this one out. The Japanese character to represent Kanji is too complicated for a 24x24-pixel icon. And the Chinese characters are more complicated. And from what I can tell, besides these characters, there is no other standardized way of representing Kanji. Also, IMO, this is too specific.

If you feel differently, please feel free to re-open this issue.

[firehiros]

I don't think it need too complicated, you can see an example on below link:
https://favicon.io/favicon-generator/?t=%E5%AD%97&ff=Leckerli+One&fs=110&fc=%23FFF&b=rounded&bc=%23000
And I think 字 character is almost OK, If you need standardized way of representing Kanji. This character's mean is word or a character on both Japanese and Chinese

[JapanYoshi]

Where's the use in this? I'm Japanese and I can't think of any examples why you would need a kanji icon.

[firehiros]

Maybe Japanese will not need using this icon. But non-Japanese like me, will need. It can be used in Japanese/Chinese learning app, or be used for creating custom keyboard (switch between alphabet/kanji)

[JapanYoshi]

translate exists. Google IME for Japanese uses the text "あa", but as a translingual icon set, I don't think that is within our scope. We'd need an icon for each writing system in the world! (We do have furigana though, because someone requested that, and I expected use in word processor type applications.)

[firehiros]

@JapanYoshi
Ops, you right. Furigana is good for that cases. I didn't see furigana icon on the beginning, then open this issue, sry about that. And thank you so much

[MrGrigri]

@JapanYoshi, do you believe furigana alone, sans dots, would be useful as a new icon? I understand that the two dots represent writing direction. But could furigana suffice for this request?

[JapanYoshi]

I went the extra 42 miles on this one.

[MrGrigri]

Those work perfect I believe

[JapanYoshi]

Here are the merged SVG paths.

[CoDEmanX]

The first 3 look quite similar. Latin and Cyrillic are not very distinct, and Greek could be misinterpreted as German (aß vs αβ). How about using different letters, which are more commonly recognized as representative for the respective langauge?

[JapanYoshi]

Eszett doesn't have a descender. I tried using Q, Л, and Ψ, but they didn't communicate "Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek script". The first two lowercase letters of these alphabets uniquely identify these three (The capital beta and the capital B are the same shape).

My only alternative idea is to use the first two letters of the script (Latin Script, Кириллица, Ελληνικό αλφάβητο).

[goyney]

We'll need to figure out a better naming scheme for these. script-* already exists. Any thoughts there?

[JapanYoshi]

Only alternative I can think of is writing-system-*. alphabet is linguistically incorrect (some are abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, or ideograms), so I can't use that in good faith.

[CoDEmanX]

The Cyrillic d is easily mistaken as a Latin A by people who don't know Cyrillic, but still classified as Russian I would say. Here is my little experiment:

I know that the d should be lower and not sit on top of the baseline, but it looks cleaner this way.

[JapanYoshi]

@CoDEmanX That looks awful and screams “I don't speak Russian!”.

[Templarian]

Yeah, we have a lot of other countries covered, but Russian isn't one. Need to make sure we handle this correctly.

I'm definitely the worst on the team to give feedback. 😅 If anyone knows people to collaborate this that would be great.

[JapanYoshi]

How could I forget Devanagari? This is the first letter of the word "Devanagari" in Hindi (though abugidas don't have "letters" as we do in alphabets...)
M 8 3 L 8 5 L 11 5 C 12.315018 5 13.408818 5.8328765 13.818359 7 L 6 7 L 6 9 L 14 9 L 14 10 L 12 10 C 9.2504209 10 7 12.250421 7 15 C 7 17.749579 9.2504209 20 12 20 C 12.77183 20 13.453941 19.732815 14 19.296875 L 14 21 L 16 21 L 16 17 L 14 17 C 13.54458 17.615507 12.83435 18 12 18 C 10.331301 18 9 16.668699 9 15 C 9 13.331301 10.331301 12 12 12 L 16 12 L 16 9 L 18 9 L 18 7 L 15.898438 7 C 15.43156 4.7253923 13.407209 3.0000001 11 3 L 8 3 z

[JapanYoshi]

For fun, here are the three conscripts that I know of: Tengwar (Lord of the Rings), Klingon pIqaD (Star Trek), and Aurebesh (Star Wars)

Tengwar: m 3,4 v 7 H 14.226562 L 22,4 H 19.011719 L 13.458984,9 H 5 V 4 Z m 0,9 v 7 h 2 v -5 h 8.458984 l 5.552735,5 H 22 l -7.773438,-7 z
pIqaD: M 13.037109,4 6.5429688,17.845703 C 6.2129704,18.549269 5.5075819,19.00004 4.7304688,19 H 4 v 1 h 12 c 1.202785,0 2.268532,0.542938 3,1.384766 l 1.007812,0.0039 C 19.046865,19.323754 16.976806,18 14.699219,18 H 12 C 11.285224,17.999556 10.620139,17.634237 10.236328,17.03125 9.8534721,16.430407 9.8005017,15.675015 10.101562,15.029297 L 10.582031,14 H 19 v -1 h -1.5 c -2.209139,0 -4,-1.790861 -4,-4 0,-2.209139 1.790861,-4 4,-4 H 20 V 4 Z
Aurebesh: M 3 4 L 3 11 L 14.226562 11 L 22 4 L 19.011719 4 L 13.458984 9 L 5 9 L 5 4 L 3 4 z M 3 13 L 3 20 L 5 20 L 5 15 L 13.458984 15 L 19.011719 20 L 22 20 L 14.226562 13 L 3 13 z

[goyney]

I want to get these in this next version, but I need a final list of all icons being added and their names attached below this reply for that to happen. Someone please do that. 😄

[JapanYoshi]

writing-system-latin
m 13,6 v 12 h 2 V 17.304688 C 15.367937,17.726584 15.902274,18 16.5,18 H 17 c 1.644703,0 3,-1.355297 3,-3 V 12 C 20,10.355297 18.644703,9 17,9 H 16.5 C 15.902274,9 15.367937,9.2734161 15,9.6953125 V 6 Z M 5,9 v 2 h 3 c 0.5712972,0 1,0.428703 1,1 H 7 c -1.6447028,0 -3,1.355297 -3,3 0,1.644703 1.3552972,3 3,3 h 4 V 12 C 11,10.355297 9.6447028,9 8,9 Z m 11,2 h 1 c 0.571297,0 1,0.428703 1,1 v 3 c 0,0.571297 -0.428703,1 -1,1 h -1 c -0.571297,0 -1,-0.428703 -1,-1 v -3 c 0,-0.571297 0.428703,-1 1,-1 z m -9,3 h 2 v 2 H 7 C 6.4287028,16 6,15.571297 6,15 6,14.428703 6.4287028,14 7,14 Z

writing-system-cyrillic
m 16,6 c -1.64501,0 -3,1.3549907 -3,3 v 6 c 0,1.644703 1.355297,3 3,3 h 1 c 1.644703,0 3,-1.355297 3,-3 V 12 C 20,10.355297 18.644703,9 17,9 h -2 c 0,-0.5641295 0.43587,-1 1,-1 h 2 c 1.092725,0 2,-0.9072754 2,-2 z M 5,9 v 2 h 3 c 0.5712972,0 1,0.428703 1,1 H 7 c -1.6447028,0 -3,1.355297 -3,3 0,1.644703 1.3552972,3 3,3 h 4 V 12 C 11,10.355297 9.6447028,9 8,9 Z m 10,2 h 2 c 0.571297,0 1,0.428703 1,1 v 3 c 0,0.571297 -0.428703,1 -1,1 h -1 c -0.571297,0 -1,-0.428703 -1,-1 z m -8,3 h 2 v 2 H 7 C 6.4287028,16 6,15.571297 6,15 6,14.428703 6.4287028,14 7,14 Z

writing-system-greek
m 16,6 c -1.644703,0 -3,1.3552972 -3,3 v 12 h 2 V 9 c 0,-0.5712972 0.428703,-1 1,-1 h 1 c 0.571297,0 1,0.4287028 1,1 v 1 c 0,0.571297 -0.428703,1 -1,1 h -1 v 2 h 1 c 0.571297,0 1,0.428703 1,1 v 1 c 0,0.571297 -0.428703,1 -1,1 h -1 v 2 h 1 c 1.644703,0 3,-1.355297 3,-3 V 14 C 20,13.1829 19.593133,12.457459 18.978516,12 19.593133,11.542541 20,10.8171 20,10 V 9 C 20,7.3552972 18.644703,6 17,6 Z M 7,9 C 5.3552972,9 4,10.355297 4,12 v 3 c 0,1.644703 1.3552972,3 3,3 H 7.6992188 C 8.1960007,18 8.6485182,17.808765 9,17.503906 V 18 h 2 V 9 H 9 V 9.4960938 C 8.6485182,9.1912353 8.1960007,9 7.6992188,9 Z m 0,2 h 1 c 0.5712972,0 1,0.428703 1,1 v 3 c 0,0.571297 -0.4287028,1 -1,1 H 7 C 6.4287028,16 6,15.571297 6,15 v -3 c 0,-0.571297 0.4287028,-1 1,-1 z

writing-system-arabic
M 12,4 C 10.078848,4 8.5000001,5.5788482 8.5,7.5 8.5,8.4328208 8.8775584,9.2802927 9.4804688,9.9101562 7.9678398,10.907894 7.0000001,12.615825 7,14.5 c -1e-7,3.025721 2.4742787,5.5 5.5,5.5 1.755316,0 3.479852,-0.462185 5,-1.339844 l -1,-1.732422 C 15.283802,17.629907 13.904344,18 12.5,18 10.555159,18 8.9999999,16.444841 9,14.5 c 10e-8,-1.588952 1.058888,-2.969797 2.59375,-3.380859 L 16.800781,9.7246094 16.28125,7.7929688 11.833984,8.984375 C 11.075396,8.9031796 10.5,8.2834139 10.5,7.5 10.5,6.6597282 11.159728,6 12,6 c 0.263356,0 0.521927,0.069494 0.75,0.2011719 l 1,-1.7324219 C 13.217977,4.1615863 12.614328,4 12,4 Z

writing-system-hebrew
m 3.9023438,4 5.1152343,6.029297 C 7.5829395,10.172561 6.3637213,11.177922 5.984375,12.59375 L 4,20 H 6.0703125 L 7.9160156,13.111328 C 8.0915316,12.456255 8.6851022,12 9.3632812,12 H 10.6875 l 6.787109,8 h 2.623047 l -5.115234,-6.029297 c 1.434639,-0.143264 2.653857,-1.148625 3.033203,-2.564453 L 20,4 h -2.070312 l -1.845704,6.888672 C 15.908468,11.543745 15.314898,12 14.636719,12 H 13.3125 L 6.5253906,4 Z

writing-system-thai
M 9,20 C 9,17.436079 10.870239,12.424438 13.857422,7.2509766 14.290608,6.5007471 15.076208,6 16,6 c 1.116413,0 2,0.88359 2,2 v 12 h 2 V 8 C 20,5.80271 18.197297,4 16,4 14.343693,4 12.898142,4.9153272 12.126953,6.25 10.559801,8.9622202 9.6046961,11.14524 9,13.027344 V 6.5 C 9,5.13113 7.8688672,4 6.5,4 5.1311328,4 4,5.13113 4,6.5 4,7.86887 5.1311328,9 6.5,9 6.6711084,9 6.8380657,8.9828217 7,8.9492188 V 20 Z M 6.5,6 C 6.787987,6 7,6.21201 7,6.5 7,6.78799 6.787987,7 6.5,7 6.212013,7 6,6.78799 6,6.5 6,6.21201 6.212013,6 6.5,6 Z

writing-system-hiragana
M 9,4 V 6 H 6 v 2 h 3 v 2.001953 c -2.7552988,0.01605 -5,2.268408 -5,5.027344 0,2.768813 2.2604834,5.029297 5.0292969,5.029297 0.8616417,0 1.6866291,-0.29019 2.3710941,-0.796875 0.230659,0.282466 0.477598,0.557676 0.74414,0.824219 l 1.414063,-1.414063 C 13.30214,18.415421 13.071892,18.153494 12.857422,17.886719 l 1,-1 c 1.068815,-1.068815 1.924101,-2.657246 2.558594,-4.296875 C 17.307529,13.111761 18,13.89989 18,15.013672 c 0,1.309484 -0.526891,2.583531 -1.464844,3.521484 l 1.414063,1.414063 C 19.261702,18.636736 20,16.857705 20,15.013672 c 0,-1.972178 -1.180364,-3.6492 -2.851562,-4.466797 L 17.484375,9.2929688 15.550781,8.7753906 15.208984,10.048828 C 15.12558,10.044684 15.055102,10 14.970703,10 H 11 V 8 h 5 V 6 H 11 V 4 Z m 2,8 h 3.5 c -0.562931,1.368543 -1.306787,2.722802 -2.056641,3.472656 l -0.658203,0.658203 C 11.248469,14.932563 11,13.592621 11,12 Z m -2,0.002 c 2.601e-4,2.070263 0.4150411,3.937489 1.296875,5.591797 C 9.9400741,17.888325 9.4961211,18.058594 9.0292969,18.058594 7.3338889,18.058594 6,16.724704 6,15.029297 6,13.343918 7.3189068,12.017607 9,12.001953 Z

writing-system-katakana
M 4,4 V 6 H 18 V 6.085937 L 14.292969,9.7929688 15.707031,11.207031 20,6.9140625 V 4 Z m 7,5 v 4 c 0,2.777778 -0.750363,3.893008 -2.6386719,5.462891 L 9.6386719,20 C 11.750363,18.244403 13,16.222222 13,13 V 9 Z

writing-system-katakana-halfwidth
m 8,4 v 2 h 5.980469 l -0.960938,4.804688 1.960938,0.390624 L 16,6.0996094 V 4 Z m 2,5 v 3 c 0,2.854544 -0.6611911,5.291105 -1.921875,6.609375 l 1.4453125,1.380859 C 11.35365,18.076421 12,15.145456 12,12 V 9 Z

writing-system-cjk
M 11,4 V 6 H 4 v 4 H 6 V 8 h 12 v 2 h 2 V 6 H 13 V 4 Z m -3,6 v 2 h 5.585938 l -2,2 H 4 v 2 h 7 v 2 h -1 v 2 h 3 v -4 h 7 V 14 H 14.214 L 16,12.214 V 10 Z

writing-system-cjk-variant
M 11,4 V 6 H 4 V 8 H 15.355469 C 15.127991,8.8704468 14.62763,9.7686698 13.882812,10.693359 13.351329,11.353196 12.707007,12.014932 12,12.673828 11.292992,12.014932 10.64867,11.353196 10.117188,10.693359 9.6539868,10.118297 9.2977688,9.5543659 9.0273438,9 H 6.8476562 c 0.3602991,1.047789 0.9732371,2.028986 1.7128907,2.947266 C 9.1335256,12.658618 9.7909617,13.339669 10.490234,14 L 5.3652344,18.228516 6.6347656,19.771484 12,15.34375 17.365234,19.771484 18.634766,18.228516 13.509766,14 c 0.699272,-0.660331 1.356708,-1.341382 1.929687,-2.052734 C 16.409437,10.743032 17.156208,9.4288598 17.404297,8 H 20 V 6 H 13 V 4 Z

writing-system-hangul
M 8,4 V 6 H 4 V 8 H 6.3886719 C 5.5462008,8.735161 5,9.8028706 5,11 c 0,2.197294 1.8027056,4 4,4 2.197294,0 4,-1.802706 4,-4 C 13,9.8028706 12.453799,8.735161 11.611328,8 H 14 V 6 H 10 V 4 Z m 7,0 v 12 h 2 v -5 h 3 V 9 H 17 V 4 Z M 9,9 c 1.116414,0 2,0.8835859 2,2 0,1.116414 -0.883586,2 -2,2 C 7.8835859,13 7,12.116414 7,11 7,9.8835859 7.8835859,9 9,9 Z m -2,7 v 4 H 17 V 18 H 9 v -2 z

writing-system-devanagari
M 8 3 L 8 5 L 11 5 C 12.315018 5 13.408818 5.8328765 13.818359 7 L 6 7 L 6 9 L 14 9 L 14 10 L 12 10 C 9.2504209 10 7 12.250421 7 15 C 7 17.749579 9.2504209 20 12 20 C 12.77183 20 13.453941 19.732815 14 19.296875 L 14 21 L 16 21 L 16 17 L 14 17 C 13.54458 17.615507 12.83435 18 12 18 C 10.331301 18 9 16.668699 9 15 C 9 13.331301 10.331301 12 12 12 L 16 12 L 16 9 L 18 9 L 18 7 L 15.898438 7 C 15.43156 4.7253923 13.407209 3.0000001 11 3 L 8 3 z

writing-system-tengwar
m 3,4 v 7 H 14.226562 L 22,4 H 19.011719 L 13.458984,9 H 5 V 4 Z m 0,9 v 7 h 2 v -5 h 8.458984 l 5.552735,5 H 22 l -7.773438,-7 z

writing-system-piqad
M 13.037109,4 6.5429688,17.845703 C 6.2129704,18.549269 5.5075819,19.00004 4.7304688,19 H 4 v 1 h 12 c 1.202785,0 2.268532,0.542938 3,1.384766 l 1.007812,0.0039 C 19.046865,19.323754 16.976806,18 14.699219,18 H 12 C 11.285224,17.999556 10.620139,17.634237 10.236328,17.03125 9.8534721,16.430407 9.8005017,15.675015 10.101562,15.029297 L 10.582031,14 H 19 v -1 h -1.5 c -2.209139,0 -4,-1.790861 -4,-4 0,-2.209139 1.790861,-4 4,-4 H 20 V 4 Z

writing-system-aurebesh
M 3 4 L 3 11 L 14.226562 11 L 22 4 L 19.011719 4 L 13.458984 9 L 5 9 L 5 4 L 3 4 z M 3 13 L 3 20 L 5 20 L 5 15 L 13.458984 15 L 19.011719 20 L 22 20 L 14.226562 13 L 3 13 z

[goyney]

Thanks @JapanYoshi, I'm compiling these now for addition.

Question: Would these not all be considered alphabets? Could we use alphabet-latin, alphabet-arabic, etc. instead?

[MrGrigri]

I would use alphabet-*

[goyney]

All are added with two exceptions:

• katakana-halfwidth seems superfolous
• tengwar's path data is Aurebesh's. Probably bad copy pasta. @JapanYoshi can you provide the correct path data for it?

[JapanYoshi]

@goyney @MrGrigri

Question: Would these not all be considered alphabets? Could we use alphabet-latin, alphabet-arabic, etc. instead?

NO! Thai and Devanagari are abugidas. Arabic and Hebrew are abjads. Hiragana, Katakana, and Hangul are syllabaries. CJK ideograms are ideograms.

• katakana-halfwidth seems superfolous

Japanese has a multibyte encoding system (well, several of them) where a version of katakana is encoded using 1 byte instead of 2 bytes, and shown with half the width of normal katakana. They're different things.

• Fullwidth katakana looks like this: コンピューター
• Halfwidth katakana looks like this: ｺﾝﾋﾟｭｰﾀｰ

Of course, they're included in Unicode.

• tengwar's path data is Aurebesh's. Probably bad copy pasta. @JapanYoshi can you provide the correct path data for it?

It should be in this. https://github.com/Templarian/MaterialDesign/issues/4671#issuecomment-570450970

[goyney]

Tengwar's path data is incorrect. Do you have the good path data?

[goyney]

_NO!_ Thai and Devanagari are abugidas. Arabic and Hebrew are abjads. Hiragana, Katakana, and Hangul are syllabaries. CJK ideograms are ideograms.

This was super helpful! These scripts have been renamed to be specific (e.g. abugida-thai, abjad-arabic, syllabary-hangul, ideogram-cjk, etc)

Japanese has a multibyte encoding system (well, several of them) where a version of katakana is encoded using 1 byte instead of 2 bytes, and shown with half the width of normal katakana. They're different things.

They look the same, just squished. Is their meanings any different?

[JapanYoshi]

This was super helpful! These scripts have been renamed to be specific (e.g. abugida-thai, abjad-arabic, syllabary-hangul, ideogram-cjk, etc)

That sounds like a total disaster. You should name the icons writing-system-name and alias them as specific-type-of-writing-system-name (possibly script-name). That way it's more searchable.

They look the same, just squished. Is their meanings any different?

It has the same difference between “HELLO WORLD” and “ＨＥＬＬＯ　ＷＯＲＬＤ” (Those are “fullwidth” letters), and Japanese input methods consider them a different type of letter. And in fact I'd wager all Japanese developers. (In name entry screens, you may read “Enter your name phonetically in fullwidth katakana”.)

[goyney]

K, I'll add it. I still need path data for tengwar.

[goyney]

Nevermind, I recreated it. All of these have been added and aliased!