Package: ttf-freefont Severity: wishlist I would be happy to help doing so of course. Kostas, if you don't have any interim maintainer for ttf-freefont, I can maybe act so...
----- Forwarded message from Primoz PETERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Primoz PETERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Indlinux-group] default font in ubuntu Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:54:08 +0100 Hello, The latest release of the Free UCS outline font suite (20060126) should offer a somewhat decent support for Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi and Gujarati in Free Sans, and Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam in Free Serif. Please have a look at it and report any misbehaviour you encounter: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/freefont/freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz I have to admit however that I am looking for a decent GPL-ed source for Telugu. A couple of minutes ago I read on < http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicFontsList> that Pothana 2000 is released under GNU GPL, which is new to me - the last time I checked its license was different. The last time I checked, it was charity-ware < http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm>. Can somebody please comment on it. I however agree with Dr. Nagarjuna that incomplete support for Indic languages in various fonts of the Free UCS outline font suite can interfere with the fonts selection mechanism and obscures the fact that these scripts should honesly be called unsupported in the Free UCS outline font suite. I plan to either find a suitable replacement for these parts or remove these parts of the font by the next release, which should happen some time in February. With kind regards, Primoz 2006/1/29, Nagarjuna G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:19:51PM -0800, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote: > > > > The default font for hindi and telugu (the languages I tested) do not > > > render properly in ubuntu. We need to identify and rectify this > > > problem. Since there are good working fonts available, this situation > > > > The problem and solution are detailed here: > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowtoFixIndicFontRendering> > > This needs a permenant fix. ttf-freefont does interfere with our > fonts is known to us at least two years ago. After investigating the > how the priority is set, we should get this fixed. This may also be > happening due to the installation script. When the user chooses to be > from India, I think the font package is installed. Since these fonts > are useless for indic-computing, we should suggest the package > maintainers (is soumyadeep doing this?) to remove indic fonts from > getting bundled in that package. > > Nagarjuna > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > IndLinux-group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/indlinux-group > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
