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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=670615 --- Comment #8 from Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> 2011-01-20 14:47:04 EST --- ASCII is useless. Almost every ascii-using script is ascii + a few other things (as Alan Cox likes to point out correct English requires ï for example to write naïve), except the few other things are not the same so you can't choose a small ASCII superset without exluding a lot of people that need just a few other things, and you can't include all those little things without getting something a lot wider than base latin. Frentch wants éèœçŷêù, German wants ss (including the new caps variant introduced a couple of years ago, in Spain Catalans want Ŀ and won't appreciate if Madrid is better served than Barcelona, etc etc We're no longer in the period where an ALLCAPS ASCII telegram was considered an acceptable way to render human language, people got used to digital publishing and want all the squiggles and diacritics that ASCII dispensed with Your "safe" reasonable unicode subset will always be out of date and inconvenient (and don't get me started on monetary symbols, € was unknown a decade ago and is a must now, who know even if the $ will be with us in a decade if China decides to let it sink, etc). Really, it's not worth optimizing this, it's a lot of work for little gain, and besides people are touchy about this stuff, so it's a lot of better to let dragons rest and not have people complain $ancestralenemylanguage is better served than $ownlanguage and Fedora maintainers are a bunch of american imperialists (you get the idea) For the lucky languages that have many fonts available only manual human sorting can identify the better shortlist to provide, and that requires work l10n side, and work on comps language groups, an automated system like fontconfig is unlikely to provide the filtering you want in that case -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fonts-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts-bugs http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
