Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-19 Severity: wishlist * Package name : xfonts-freefont Version : 2002.10.11 Upstream Author : Primoz Peterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ * License : GPL-2 Description : free scalable fonts
The new Red Hat 8.0 (which uses UTF-8 thoroughly) uses these fonts as standard fonts for its environment. I think we have enough time to do the same before the official release of sarge. I would like to ask if you agree with the name of the package. The upstream uses the name "Freefont", but it is possible that this name will confuse some of the people who have heard that there is also a package named freefont which despite its name is not free. I intend to use this as a description of the package: This package installs a set of free scalable fonts. The set consists of three typefaces: one monospaced and two proportional (one with uniform and one with modulated stroke). . These fonts support a large set of scripts and glyphs: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana and Thai scripts, as well as some mathematical operators, dingbaths, currency symbols, arrows and some other symbols. . These fonts should be standard for any GNU operating system which claims to support Unicode. They also aim to stop switching of the free software users from the free X11 bitmapped fonts to the proprietary fonts of one well known software corporation. . This Debian package includes TrueType versions of the fonts. Anton Zinoviev
