Languages
User and Admin portals are currently only available in English.
The following 65 languages are supported for design composition. BOLDED languages fully support hyphenation:
Abkhazian
Afar
Afrikaans
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Basque
Belorussian
Breton
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese - Both Traditional & Simplified
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch - Both old and new orthographies
English - Both UK and American orthographies
Esperanto
Estonian
Faeroese
Filipino
Finnish - Only Modern Orthology (Roman Alphabet)
Flemish
French - Both French and Canadian variants
Frisian
German - Both old and new orthographies, plus Swiss German
Greek
Greenlandic
Hungarian
Icelandic
Irish
Italian
Japanese - Some culteral typographic features (e.g. Ruby) are not supported
Kazakh
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Maltese
Moldavian
Mongolian
Norwegian
Polish
Provencal
Portuguese
Rhaeto-Romance
Romanian
Romany
Russian
Sami
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Sorbian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tagalog - Only Modern Orthology (Roman Alphabet)
Tatar
Turkish
Turkmen
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Welsh
Are there any languages we cannot support?
There are two kinds of language that currently cannot be used to compose designs:
Those requiring bi-directional script support, such as Arabic and Hebrew. These languages are bi-directional because they are written right-to-left, except when there's a number, which has to be written left-to-right.
Those requiring complicated shape-handling rules, such as all the Indian and Southeast Asian languages composed with Indic scripts (e.g., Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Khmer, Tamil, Telugu, Thai), as well as, again, Arabic and Arabic-derived scripts (e.g., Jawi). The complicating factor with these languages is that the composition engine must not only detect when to call upon the font to substitute a single digraph or ligature when the constituent glyphs are entered in the right sequence, but must also be able to change the positions of glyphs based on their sequence, typically by stacking them in various ways, or a combination of stacking plus calling upon variants of the original glyphs.
Additionally, Korean represents a special case:
We cannot claim to support composition in Hangul, the script used to write Korean, because of an inability to handle the proportional spacing required by punctuation marks. For projects that do not use Hangul punctuation, however, design composition of Korean may be found acceptable.
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