-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 (This proposal relates with "Future of ttf-cjk-compact", <20150715074128.gn6...@mraw.org>)
Hi, This is a proposal to replace ttf-cjk-compact with fonts-droid for next (Stretch) debian-installer. Introduction: DroidSansFallback.ttf of fonts-droid package appears best choice for graphical debian-installer to show CJK - Chinese, Japanese, Korean -, because it is scalable font, quite small footprint (3939852 bytes), and enough legible. ttf-cjk-compact was born in 2005, to display CJK characters on graphical debian-installer. Due to lack of small scalable CJK font at 2005 and limited RAM disk size, I made a "workaround" font package ttf-compact-fonts (former name). This font package made a list of "may use" characters from d-i po files and some other packages, then rebuilt reduced font with the list by modifying other font packages; vlgothic, unfont, and arphic-uming. (ja.ttf: 197392 bytes, ko.ttf: 152000 bytes, zh.ttf: 1258276 bytes. total: 1607668 bytes.) After some tests, I believe it's time to use fonts-droid instead of ttf-cjk-compact. Test: - - screenshots: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i-font/sc/ - - graphical netboot mini.iso: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i-font/mini.iso (50MB) Step: 1. Modify fonts-android to provide fonts-android-udeb which has only DroidSansFallback.ttf. patch: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i-font/fonts-android.diff 2. After fonts-android-udeb is installed to the mirror, Modify d-i/installer to use fonts-droid-udeb instead of ttf-cjk-compact-udeb. patch: http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i-font/installer.diff 3. Remove ttf-cjk-compact from unstable and testing. Pros: - d-i code gets smarter way. - most CJK characters will be shown correctly. - replacing ttf-cjk-compact with DroidSansFallback doesn't break other languages. (as far as I saw) - Chinese gets sans-serif. Cons: - increases +2MB for each graphical initrd. jessie-amd64/cdrom/gtk/initrd.gz: 25557641 -> 281535694 hd-media/gtk/initrd.gz: 27747025 -> 30340894 netboot/gtk/initrd.gz: 34425758 -> 37539446 netboot/gtk/mini.iso: 49283072 -> 52428800 - Some Japanese characters look bit funny. (I believe it is negligible for installer.) Note: - Noto family, brand-new Google's free and well-designed font, is too big. For example NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc is 17MB. - DroidSansFallbackFull doesn't include Korean Hangul characters. Thanks, - -- Kenshi Muto km...@debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.9 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVrw0cAAoJEB0hyD3EUuD843MP/1dflBw9H03JSO696nbaFzId uxFJj97DYJS1bG2CEDOg49YOF6gdv6GWw766/dU11uyz4HTMAGZkq3vnCGZFg3c1 JwDeA5YoE7FBF1ecwXztJdjvmN7C2LQFAas/RUTK+AKbBMxWK5kp4Q0/1P+jhzvo wYkjvmaUOcWJOE6+7U6nVoAStQmCbJuHcJtXlyfZF+GbqWc8SPJbo20+KKOaXa/w NRXKQ+VWTsVa86WI4Xh+Qs+FXafuszJwkwfOR9DQPdLVk/bwyJGKshx/oRBs3NpY nUVMF9Ml7UaE7VocEPmCAEF0555EFO/foaKM/6Bx87NcowRpGZ7DjmyEErSLteTC Dvh7CgznskDVjPAZvIqc0ENMIqcT2ufEUS5no2atBSD8pN/CBFQUUrZ17x2YGmuj 5aJT+OpC+zhcP0DoDuDc0DDpqXeyGvSZI94WkYlmJLnB90OjMR5apMS4w8nN5yFF +dpROdjTgAystiXu4rnME+PW6A7rMxzZ27VwlqQvMQ2yhBd/xb7xQC8U4ELMlvgX Kkj9mPS9YIwyOuRCO3C/2xAPuWaggN/93QBerDLAca9ejruTKuiYzh1yg5gyuq03 O2CgvUJENT1c0IS19lIQbxra3Q4X09nQlC11Voj7sybGedEoB6ZGxtB5j8geYhdd gPk4ZGsCGL/dHxwikwB3 =qufz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150722032602.b72474920...@mail.topstudio.co.jp
