On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi Samphan, > > first, thanks for your patch. I am not expert on fonts, so please excuse > my potentially ignorant questions. > > Samphan Raruenrom píše v Čt 17. 03. 2011 v 15:02 +0700: > > See http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_AndaleSansUI.html > > Andale Sans UI (soui.ttf) > > Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for > > education and research purposes. > > Stats: Version 1.10 has 668 glyphs and 3,400 kerning pairs > > Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin > > > > Since Andale Sans UI is only available for PC that have installed > > StarOffice 7 (or newer), I suggest we remove the font from LO default > > font fallback lists because not many people will have the font > > installed anyway. > > Hmm, I think that it does not cause any harm if "Andale Sans UI" is in > the fallback list. It is ignored if it is not installed. Former > StarOffice users might want to use it for backward compatibility. > > > > This is what the patch does: > > 1) remove all instance of Andale Sans UI > > Could you please explain what it the advantage of this change? I think > that I have missed something. > OK. I see the point. > > > 2) for UI_SANS, if Andale Sans UI is the first-priority font, use > > Tahoma instead because it has better glyph coverage than Arial Unicode > > MS > > It seems to me that Arial Unicode MS supports more unicode ranges and > code pages, see > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?fmid=1081 > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1805 > > Or is Tahoma better for a particular language? > I've just found after I've sent the email that Arial Unicode MS has much better glyph coverage. Sorry for not having done the homework enough :P And for that reson, I think we should prefer "Arial Unicode MS" to Andale Sans UI in UI_SANS case. I'll discuss the rationale in the next reply (to Christian). > > > > 3) for th locale, the Thai community are coming with better default > > font lists that work cross-platform > > Sounds great. > > > Best Regards, > Petr > > -- _/|\_ Samphan Raruenrom. Open Source Development Co., Ltd. Tel: +66 38 311816, Fax: +66 38 773128, http://www.osdev.co.th/
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