Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread David Banks
On 27/02/13 05:50, Paul Wise wrote: There is some info about Unicode coverage in Debian on this wiki page, at one point we had all of Unicode except Chinese (which has many thousands of characters) but Unicode moved on since then. http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/UnicodeCoverage Is there

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
recommended is in the eye of the beholder, I personally like DejaVu for latin characters but others detest it. There is a page about fonts for the Debian installer though: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIFonts -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 16:57:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Let alone http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/utf8/ where I'm still missing: Vietnamese (nôm) (only some characters) Mongolian (Classic) These may actually be covered by fonts in Debian, but I don't know how to find them. I think

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 13:50:59 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: When we finally implement DEP-11, we will have the means to implement automatic font installation based on needed characters. Hopefully for jessie we will be able to catch up with Fedora, who have had this for a while now:

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 16:57:48 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Let alone http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/utf8/ where I'm still missing: Vietnamese (nôm) (only some characters) Mongolian (Classic) These may actually be covered by fonts in Debian, but

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 01:50:59PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Amen to this. I care a lot about having fairly complete Unicode coverage in my display fonts, and I've often had to trawl through aptitude to try to guess at which font

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 09:17:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: I think these should be covered somehow by fonts-freefont-ttf and ttf-unifont. ttf-unifont did indeed cover Mongolian (Classic). Thank you! You're welcome, I also get bothered by this. :)

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Guillem Jover (2013-02-27 22:14:39) On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 09:17:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org writes: I think these should be covered somehow by fonts-freefont-ttf and ttf-unifont. ttf-unifont did indeed cover Mongolian (Classic). Thank you!

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Some poking around Wikipedia reveals that what this page is referring to is Chữ Nôm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m. I suspect the fonts I have installed have all of the borrowed Chinese characters but are missing some

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: This seems wrong to me. Adding complex schemes to text-drawing backends sounds like something fragile. It will slow stuff down, and add surprising modes of failure as well. The schemes have already been implemented in PackageKit and

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I get zero squares from that wikipedia page, because: 爫 is supported by ttf-wqy-zenhei 瘇 is supported by fonts-arphic-ukai ᗶ is supported by fonts-hanazono ' is supported by fonts-hanazono fonts-hanazono did it. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
reassign 701585 general thanks Le mardi 26 février 2013 à 08:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : No, but the BTS is (to some extent), and there are various tools that suggest the package general if you don't know what the exact buggy program is. When doing that, the package ends up on

Processed: Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 701585 general Bug #701585 [gnome-settings-daemon] general: Can't select other languages Bug reassigned from package 'gnome-settings-daemon' to 'general'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #701585 to the same values

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): That’s what gnome-control-center does. This is not helpful for the user who wants to select another language, though. The bug is that we do not install locales-all by default, nor do we default to generate all (at least all UTF-8) locales. At

Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
reassign 701585 locales # or close thanks On Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013, Josselin Mouette wrote: reassign 701585 general thanks Le mardi 26 février 2013 à 08:34 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : No, but the BTS is (to some extent), and there are various tools that suggest the package

Processed: Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 701585 locales Bug #701585 [general] general: Can't select other languages Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'locales'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #701585 to the same values previously set Ignoring request to

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 07:27:19PM +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): That’s what gnome-control-center does. This is not helpful for the user who wants to select another language, though. The bug is that we do not install locales-all by

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: on these systems, getting all the default fonts and input methods would also be a big plus. For the moment we are years behind other systems such as Mac OS, where at any time it is possible to switch language or browse a website in a language that is

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: Amen to this. I care a lot about having fairly complete Unicode coverage in my display fonts, and I've often had to trawl through aptitude to try to guess at which font packages I need to install just to, for example, see the front page of

Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
reopen 701585 reassign 701585 gnome-settings-daemon severity 701585 normal thanks On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 09:30:03PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Hello Carlos, Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** Debian-Devel is no user support

Processed: Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reopen 701585 Bug #701585 {Done: Markus Frosch mar...@lazyfrosch.de} [general] general: Can't select other languages Bug reopened Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #701585 to the same values previously set reassign 701585

Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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