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"Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects - digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars. It's a company that doesn't shy away from grand plans. But one recent effort, despite its rather lofty scope, has escaped much notice. The company is working on a font that aims to include "" - every written language on Earth. "Tofu" is what the pros call those tiny, empty rectangles that show up when a script isn't supported. This is where Google's new font family, "Noto," gets its name: "No Tofu." Right now, Noto includes a wide breadth of language scripts from all around the world - specifically, 100 scripts with 100,000 characters. That includes over 600 written languages, says Jungshik Shin, an engineer on Google's text and font team. The first fonts were released in 2012. But this month, Google (in partnership with Adobe) has a new set of Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts - the latest in their effort to make the Internet more inclusive. But as with any product intended to be universal, the implementation gets complicated - and not everyone for whom the product is intended is happy."

"Intervention de Jean-François Colosimo, Président du directoire des éditions du Cerf, Président du Centre national du livre de 2010 à 2013, au colloque "l'exception culturelle" du 14 octobre 2013. " À propos du livre, du web, du livre numérique, des aides au secteur du livre et des métadonnées : "Plutôt que de multiplier des lois qui font parfois sourire ces géants cannibales, nous ferions mieux de répondre par un véritable projet politico-industriel. Ils ont gagné la bataille du stockage des contenus et la bataille des tuyaux. Nous les avons perdues. Mais il est une autre bataille, sur un terrain où nous sommes dix fois meilleurs qu'eux - et nous n'y venons toujours pas… - c'est la bataille des métadonnées." Si seulement...