#culmaer

Thank you for your kind message. These are dark days for Ukraine, Europe and the world at large, and I am glad that you thought to reached out.

I left Belarus in 2018 (thinking I would work abroad again in Japan in 2020, which didn't happen), and have been teaching online ever since. Many of my students are/have been Russian-speakers from Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and other FSU countries, although the first group ceased taking lessons entirely following the 2020 election in Belarus and ensuing unrest. I am extremely worried for everyone's safety and well-being, whether they are currently in their home countries or have emigrated to other cities throughout Europe and the US.

My non-Belarusian friends and foreign colleagues left Minsk for Kiev and other cities following the 2020 Belarusian election. Those that moved to Ukraine moved out of Kiev in the days leading up to the bombardment, but I am waiting for information about their health/safety following how widespread the attacks have been in the last 24 or so hours, as some of them may have only travelled as far as western Ukraine.

1. what is a sound that you can’t make?

i googled the phonology of the czech language for fun and i don’t understand what “ř” is.

7. name a grammar point that seemed really hard to you at first but is now second nature?

the subjunctive mood in spanish

my dad was big into computers so we had enough parts in our house at any one time to build like 12 of them but that also meant we got internet at home super early

ooooh, I’m anxious to see the Dutch version !! but will try to avoid it until I finalise the Afrikaans text

Hi, thank you. Thats kind.

I have a Pashto landay book and saved poems in my notebooks.

Ugh… >.< To answer your question, you shouldn’t have to do anything special for your ligatures at all, if the RTL part of it works right. That’s a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE “if”, though. If you can manage to map every single one of your characters to a Hebrew Unicode point, that may work (or, to be accurate, it should work anywhere Hebrew correctly renders as RTL rather than LTR), but I have never tried it personally, so the best I can tell you is that it should work. Honestly, it’s been so long since I tried RTL that things may be better now. I don’t expect them to be better, but they may be. I should try out a toy script just to see some time, but there’s no way I’m going all in for a script I care about unless I know exactly how it’s going to behave. My usual advice is to design the glyphs as RTL then flip them all and generate a LTR font—then mirror any text whenever you’re making anything public-facing. It’s convoluted and silly, but it honestly seems better than relying on applications correctly implementing RTL.