Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]

Depends how international you want it! Adobe Pro fonts have many glyphs, especially the newer fonts. Comparing the number of glyphs: Fedora fonts ~~~~~~~~~~~~ DejaVu Serif Book: 2885 DejaVu Sans Book: 5270 DejaVu Sans Mono Book: 3020 Liberation Serif Regular: 668 Liberation Sans Regular: 675 Liberation Mono Regular: 670 Linux Libertine Regular: 2388 Charis SIL Regular: 3289 Doulos SIL Regular: 3288 Gentium Regular: 1699 The URW fonts I got in OpenType have 300 or so glyphs. The type-1 Fedora ships, which have Cyrillic but broken Romanian, have around 500. Adobe Pro ~~~~~~~~~ Adobe Caslon Pro Regular: 801 Minion Pro Regular: 1668 Arno Pro Regular: 2846 Garamond Premier Pro Regular: 2735 Myriad Pro Regular: 846 Courier Std Medium: 374 [I don't have any Pro monospaced] MS XP + EU Expansion Font Update ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arial Regular: 1680 Times New Roman Regular: 1680 Verdana Regular: 913 Microsoft Sans Serif Regular: 2259 Courier New Regular: 1318 (this actullay lacks Romanian glyphs, it wasn't updated) MS Vista (actually these are from PPT Viewer 2k7, I don't have Vista) ~~~~~~~~ Cambria Bold: 979 [note: fontmatrix cannot read ttc files, like the Cambria Regular + Math] Constantia Regular: 994 Calibri Regular: 1121 Corbel Regular: 987 Candara Regular: 966 Consolas Regular: 709 MS Office 2k3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palatino Linotype Regular: 1328 Tahoma Regular: 2036 So, DejaVu Sans may win the number of glyphs contest, but I wouldn't print stuff in DejaVu. Linux Libertine is much better in that respect. Liberation is somewhere in between. What Linux really needs is a sans version of Libertine! If I were Redhat management I'd pay Philipp Poll or the SIL fokes instead of Ascender Corp! Btw, Charis SIL is okay for some jobs, but it is a slab serif. Btw, I have no need to write Chinese or Arabic, but there commercial fonts for those too! On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net&gt; wrote: