Op 09-07-2007 om 18:01 schreef Praveen A: > 2007/7/4, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >-concern for translations > > Installing fonts for all d-i supported languages. Current situation is > completely broken for many Indian languages when installing from a > CD/DVD, bandwidth is still an issue - and added to that the installer > does not ask to scan other disks, so even if you have all 3 DVDs and > the font is part of the language tasks you will get a system without > fonts if your language does not have glyphs in dejavu and you will be > greeted with many boxes as the installed sets your language selected > during installation as the default locale. > > There could be many solutions > > 1) Having a mechanism to install fonts used by d-i (or at least the > font for language selected during installation). > 2) Get all supported fonts in the first CD/DVD so that language tasks > will handle > - Create language-font task and have them included in first cd > 3) Let the language tasks handle this and have the installer ask for > scanning the full CDs/DVD set if available. Frans has promised to look > into this after etch release and I hope this gets added. In that case > the user needs to have all the CDs/DVDs. > 4) Add the missing language glyphs to dejavu. This looks a very good option.
I fear an increase on the size of the images and fear even more hitting some (memory) limits. Assume we have a brave person who can tweak the build system, in a way that font and languages are split. Which fonts and languages should have their one group? Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
