On 3/16/06, Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > this actually simplify things, given the number of languages which is > > > covered by freefont. If we're using freefont also to display Cyrillic, > > > Christian just needs to comment the following line from > > > "FreeSans-strip": > > > > Hmm. Shouldn't we talk to ru, uk, be, sr, etc. translators before > > switching to freefont for Cyrilic? IIRC they were the ones that asked us > > to use Dejavu in the first place. > > yes, but we should also consider that the following glyphs are used by > Cyrillic > translations and are not in current (2.1-2) DejavuSans ttf files: > > <U04a2> 3 times in kk.po > <U04a3> 1118 times in kk.po > <U04ae> once in kk.po > <U04af> 1059 times in kk.po > <U04b0> once in kk.po > <U04b1> 422 times in kk.po > <U04d8> 5 times in kk.po > <U04d9> 199 times in kk.po > <U04e8> 15 times in kk.po > <U04e9> 734 times in kk.po > <U2116> 38 times in bg.ko
Maybe if we collaborate with deja-vu upstream and the other BitstreamVera derivatives: http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Bitstream_Vera_derivatives Maybe, just maybe, we'll have a decent font for cyrillic ;-) [I know my ideas seem many times a little too far from reality, but we have to have dreams, don't we?] Another hint on font coverage: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/index.htm > Well, considering that #349511 (new version [2.2] available) was filed > 23 Jan 2006 which is almost two months ago I assume there's not much > activity going on with the package. :( -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
