On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:37:51PM +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: > > On 17/03/2006, at 10:18 PM, Davide Viti wrote: > > >Here's ([1]) a screenshot of some vietnamese text rendered > >with the new version of freefont uploaded by Christian; does > >it look right? > >This version of freefont should contain all the glyphs needed to > >render Vietnamese. > > Thanks for the screenshot, Davide. I hope it doesn't show any > functional part of the installer, because it's all fragments of > strings, not complete strings. ;)
don't worry! I just select the longest lines of text from the po file so that native speakers (i.e. you) have a better idea of how glyphs look like. > It's difficult to give detailed feedback on the font, because the > text in the screenshot is so small. I can say that the right accents > are on the right characters, so the text (when it makes sense ;) ) is > readable. That's the key thing. It seems to show all our glyphs. nice: last time you pointed out it was almost unreadable because of missing glyphs. As for the fontsize we can increase it, so it would not be a problem. > Some of the accents are not positioned correctly when combined: > should I give that detailed feedback here, or should I do that to the > freefont authors? (It doesn't affect meaning, but it will have users > in my community thinking, "Yuk, what's wrong with this font?") Perhaps you should file a bug for the freefont authors; consider the following though: 1) I'd like to have the new freefont as default version of freefont for g-i (we're still in the process of switching) 2) Christian is about to upload the new version of Dejavu fonts, and we might use those to render Vietnamese > Our language is a challenge to font-creators, so the freefont people > have done well to get the glyphs represented readably. > > I have screenshots of the Verajja font compared with Lucida Grande, > the general-purpose Unicode font on my system, and a font created > especially for Vietnamese, if you would find those useful. Has > Verajja been integrated into Dejavu yet? I have tested the Verajja > font with Vietnamese, for its creator. I'll let you have a screenshot of Vietnamese text rendered with Dejavu as soon as the package reaches the mirrors. Ciao, Davide
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