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.1, 22 March 2022
Version history:
1.1, 18 December 2017
2.0, 5 January 2018
2.1, 20 April 2018
2.2, 21 September 2018
2.3, 12 December 2019
- 2.3.1, 22 March 2022
Georgian Scripts
In Brill publications, Georgian text occurs sporadically. Of the three Georgian scripts (see list below), Mkhedruli has been the most prevalent in modern times. The Georgian alphabet was formerly regarded as unicameral, i.e., lacking a distinction between lowercase and uppercase. In the past, some have introduced a bicameral style called Khutsuri which combines Asomtavruli letters as capitals and Nuskhuri letters as lowercase letters. In very recent times, the definition of a fourth ‘script’, or range of characters, traditionally called Mtavruli, effectively turns modern Georgian into a bicameral script just like Latin.
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Before version 2.0 of this document, in 2010, the font family BPG Academiuri UAm was chosen as the most appropriate in academic publications. No font choices for Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri (or Khutsuri) were made at the time. Given the lack of availability of the BPG Academiuri UAm fonts, and in view of the recent (2018) changes in the Unicode encoding of Georgian because of the addition of Mtavruli characters, Brill has switched to a pair of font families, Noto Serif Georgian and Noto Sans Georgian (both currently in(2022) in version 2.0, which has 1, the latter having a different design from version 1.0; some characters which were only encoded after the release of version 1.0 have also been added). Noto Sans Georgian was chosen for Asomtavruli text on April 20, 2018, because of the monumental nature of some very old Georgian texts, composed with mosaic tesserae, with which a sans serif design was thought to harmonize better than a serif design.
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Note: when Asomtavruli is used to provide capital letters to Nuskhuri, the combination forming Khutsuri text, use Noto Serif Georgian for Asomtavruli.
Mtavruli texts: no font has yet been chosen. At the time of this writing (21 September 2018; last checked: 9 September 2021) no Noto fonts the current Noto Serif Georgian fonts (v. 2.1) have been updated to include the Mtavruli characters.
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