Cyrillic set feedback wanted

[chrissimpkins]

If there are any native speakers/writers out there using it, any input that you can provide on the character shapes, positioning, and appearance would be very helpful.

[retgoat]

Hey!
I'll try it

[chrissimpkins]

Great! Let me know if there are any glyphs that appear incorrect. Thanks for your help.

[istarkov]

I've used this font, and cyrillic (i'm russian) looks nice and well.
But where is one typical error for Russian programmers -
latin symbol "c" and russian "с" are placed on one keyboard button, and looks the same.
Is it possible to change russian c glyph on something different?

[chrissimpkins]

@istarkov Thanks for the feedback.

To clarify, you would like the Cyrillic c mapped to a different unicode position in the set so that you can use it on keyboards with Cyrillic key mapping? I'm not sure that I completely grasp the request.

[istarkov]

It's easy to make a mistake in Russian like

let csomeVar = 'blabla';
console.log(сsomeVar);

Here second сsomeVar has cyrillic с at the beginning.
And this is very often mistake because on keyboard latin с and russian с is on one button.
IMHO cyrillic с must be different like 0-o-O (zero - о - O) as you have in hack.

[chrissimpkins]

I see. I am educating myself on Cyrillic key mapping and will get back to you on this one. Let me see what I can come up with.

[retgoat]

@chrissimpkins,
I completely agreed with @istarkov. Difference between c (latin) and с (cyrillic) not an extremely important, but would be very helpful for russian users.

[chrissimpkins]

I re-read your question and I think that I misunderstood you the first time. Are you asking to have the shape of the Cyrillic c glyph changed? I thought you were asking to map it to a different unicode position. If I understand correctly, you want to be able to visually differentiate the Cyrillic from the Latin glyph shapes.

[retgoat]

@chrissimpkins,
exactly. We'd like to see changed shape of Cyrillic glyph c like with o and 0 (zero).
Thanks in advance.

[chrissimpkins]

I see. Yes, that is definitely possible. I added a new issue (#29) to address this and will leave this thread open for additional Cyrillic set suggestions.

Thank you very much for the feedback @retgoat & @istarkov.

[retgoat]

Welcome! :)

[chrissimpkins]

I'll let you know when there is a build ready with this change.

[softkot]

Installs Hack as primary Intelij IDEA editor font and it looks great, found no issues with cyrillic set.

Thanks for your work.