2009/1/16 Ted Mielczarek <ted.mielcza...@gmail.com> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:31 AM, D Tucny <d...@tucny.com> wrote: > >> Not now it doesn't... jth did the last render and is obviously missing >> fonts needed... however, it seems some people do have OK fonts... >> > > Does t...@h require the correct fonts to be installed on the user's machine? > That seems pretty suboptimal. Couldn't it ship a free font with the software > and use that? > > The t...@h installation instructions tell you to install the DejaVu font, a free font, however, it's coverage, as can be seen here http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/dejavu/trunk/dejavu-fonts/langcover.txtis missing some pretty large chunks that would likely take significantly more effort than has so far gone into the font to fill... as such, to render any of the missing languages (listed below) alternative fonts are needed...
Amharic Bihari (Devanagari script) Bhojpuri (Devanagari script) Bengali Tibetan Cherokee Dzongkha Ethiopic (Geez) Gujarati Hindi (Devanagari script) Japanese Khmer Kannada Korean Kokani (Devanagari script) Kashmiri (Devanagari script) Malayalam Mongolian Marathi (Devanagari script) Burmese (Myanmar) Nepali (Devanagari script) Oriya Punjabi (Gurumukhi script) Sanskrit (Devanagari script) Sinhala (Sinhalese) Syriac Tamil Telugu Thai Eritrean Tigrinya Ethiopian Tigrinya Tigre Tagalog Chinese (simplified) Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Chinese in Macau Chinese in Singapore Chinese (traditional) There is at least some overlap with some of those languages, and some of those will not be in common use, at least for naming, but, that is just a list from the linked completion report above... d
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