Hi,
Recently i done packaging of google-noto-fonts [1] for Fedora. With this font we got number of new script fonts of Unicode which were not available earlier. [2]
Just done editing of comps file and my question is out of these script fonts how many we suppose to install by default.
Presently we are following like at least one fonts for each script should be available with default installation, so if anyone while browsing web etc can get correct rendering for his script.
But here issue is supporting whole Unicode with default installation will be too much.
Might be we should only install fonts for BMP of Unicode and lets have other fonts installed by users when required (we do have feature in Fedora where if any fonts are not installed by default fontconfig search for particular script fonts.)
I have done comps editing by keeping above thing in mind. If anyone have other suggestion please let me know.
Best Regards, Pravin Satpute
1. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/google-noto-fonts 2. http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=456970
Added devel list proper email id.
Regards, Pravin S
On 26 August 2013 17:15, pravin.d.s@gmail.com pravin.d.s@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Recently i done packaging of google-noto-fonts [1] for Fedora. With this font we got number of new script fonts of Unicode which were not available earlier. [2]
Just done editing of comps file and my question is out of these script fonts how many we suppose to install by default.
Presently we are following like at least one fonts for each script should be available with default installation, so if anyone while browsing web etc can get correct rendering for his script.
But here issue is supporting whole Unicode with default installation will be too much.
Might be we should only install fonts for BMP of Unicode and lets have other fonts installed by users when required (we do have feature in Fedora where if any fonts are not installed by default fontconfig search for particular script fonts.)
I have done comps editing by keeping above thing in mind. If anyone have other suggestion please let me know.
Best Regards, Pravin Satpute
pravin.d.s@gmail.com (pravin.d.s@gmail.com) said:
Recently i done packaging of google-noto-fonts [1] for Fedora. With this font we got number of new script fonts of Unicode which were not available earlier. [2]
Just done editing of comps file and my question is out of these script fonts how many we suppose to install by default.
Presently we are following like at least one fonts for each script should be available with default installation, so if anyone while browsing web etc can get correct rendering for his script.
But here issue is supporting whole Unicode with default installation will be too much.
Might be we should only install fonts for BMP of Unicode and lets have other fonts installed by users when required (we do have feature in Fedora where if any fonts are not installed by default fontconfig search for particular script fonts.)
I have done comps editing by keeping above thing in mind. If anyone have other suggestion please let me know.
Sticking to the BMP is probably a good starting point, although I can see desktop installations wanting the emoji subset of the SMP installed out of the box.
Bill
On 27 August 2013 00:57, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
pravin.d.s@gmail.com (pravin.d.s@gmail.com) said:
Recently i done packaging of google-noto-fonts [1] for Fedora. With
this
font we got number of new script fonts of Unicode which were not
available
earlier. [2]
Just done editing of comps file and my question is out of these
script
fonts how many we suppose to install by default.
Presently we are following like at least one fonts for each script should be available with default installation, so if anyone while
browsing
web etc can get correct rendering for his script.
But here issue is supporting whole Unicode with default installation will be too much.
Might be we should only install fonts for BMP of Unicode and lets
have
other fonts installed by users when required (we do have feature in
Fedora
where if any fonts are not installed by default fontconfig search for particular script fonts.)
I have done comps editing by keeping above thing in mind. If anyone
have
other suggestion please let me know.
Sticking to the BMP is probably a good starting point, although I can see desktop installations wanting the emoji subset of the SMP installed out of the box.
Yeah. If someone does specific request for SMP we should go ahead with it. At the end of days it is going to take only some kb's space in ISO's.
Regards, Pravin Satpute
Le Mar 27 août 2013 06:34, pravin.d.s@gmail.com a écrit :
Yeah. If someone does specific request for SMP we should go ahead with it. At the end of days it is going to take only some kb's space in ISO's.
I know it's probably wishful thinking on my part, but it would be great if all the local Fedora orgs (ambassadors…) spent a little time checking our default fonts are suitable for their locale and suggested alternatives if not. i18n shouldn't be centralized the way it is now. (we have good Greek coverage for example because in the past Greek people got involved and pointed us to the Greek Font Society, but unfortunately this is the exception not the rule)
On 27 August 2013 14:04, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.netwrote:
Le Mar 27 août 2013 06:34, pravin.d.s@gmail.com a écrit :
Yeah. If someone does specific request for SMP we should go ahead with it. At the end of days it is going to take only some kb's space in ISO's.
I know it's probably wishful thinking on my part, but it would be great if all the local Fedora orgs (ambassadors…) spent a little time checking our default fonts are suitable for their locale and suggested alternatives if not. i18n shouldn't be centralized the way it is now. (we have good Greek coverage for example because in the past Greek people got involved and pointed us to the Greek Font Society, but unfortunately this is the exception not the rule)
Yes, i do agree. Presently we have more options and can be bit more choosy for default font. http://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/f19-defaultfonts.html can be useful for this.
Regards, Pravin Satpute
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