Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Adam Borowski may or may not have written... [snip] > I don't believe that anyone can learn even an alphabet without knowing its > name. I was going to say that you're wrong, but then it occurred to me that the first one that most of us learn is called "the alphabet". ;-) -- | Dar

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-26 kello 15:07 +0200, Adam Borowski kirjoitti: > Why would viewing the document matter if you don't know the language or > even the script in the first place? To get out of it what I can. Sometimes it is surprisingly much, even when one doesn't understand the language or the script. T

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Lars Wirzenius wrote: su, 2006-03-26 kello 04:11 -0600, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti: OTOH, if you have no idea what language or what country the font pertains to, why would you want that font? It is not inconceivable that one could stumble on a document from Bhutan, and want

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-26 kello 13:19 +0200, David Weinehall kirjoitti: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:02:43PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > This is not what I would call a common use case, but it exists. I've > > been in the situation once searching for a "Russian" font, when I > > should've been looking fo

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:02:43PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2006-03-26 kello 04:11 -0600, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti: > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:08:02AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Well, I have one very little argument against doing so: why do it > > > > for Dzongkha and

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
su, 2006-03-26 kello 04:11 -0600, Peter Samuelson kirjoitti: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:08:02AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Well, I have one very little argument against doing so: why do it > > > for Dzongkha and why not do it for, say, French...:-) > > [Lionel Elie Mamane] > > Becau

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Samuelson
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:08:02AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Well, I have one very little argument against doing so: why do it > > for Dzongkha and why not do it for, say, French...:-) [Lionel Elie Mamane] > Because "French" is the adjective in English (the language the > package desc

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:08:02AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Drew Parsons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>> This package includes fonts that are suitable for the display of >>> the Dzongkha language. >> May I suggest for rare languages like this that you also mention in >> the descriptio

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Drew Parsons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > This package includes fonts that are suitable for the display of the > > Dzongkha > > language. > > > > May I suggest for rare languages like this t

Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-20 Thread Drew Parsons
> Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This package includes fonts that are suitable for the display of the Dzongkha > language. > May I suggest for rare languages like this that you also mention in the description where the language comes fr

Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

2006-03-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ttf-dzongkha Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Chris Fynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115503 * License : GPL Descr