On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi, > > At the moment we ship the "Latin-Greek-Cyrillic" stripped-down version > of the DejaVu font set as our default font. > > This works well for many, but doesn't include glyphs(characters) that > are important for some deployments who actively use recent OS images. > e.g. Armenia, Canada (e.g. Inuktitut glyphs). > > So we're planning to ship the full DejaVu font set by default on all > platforms starting from 13.1.0. This adds a lot more glyphs and > satisifies those users, but the downside is that these fonts are > bigger (in terms of disk space used, not in terms of visual size). > This will increase the base uncompressed OS size by about 6mb. > > If they want to, deployments can revert to the old/smaller font > packages with olpc-os-builder configuration, e.g.: > > [custom_packages] > > add_packages=dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts,dejavu-lgc-sans-mono-fonts,dejavu-lgc-serif-fonts > del_packages=dejavu-sans-fonts,dejavu-sans-mono-fonts,dejavu-serif-fonts > > Any objections? If not we will go ahead and make this change soon.
Another bit of good news is that these three expanded DejaVu font sets each include a glyph for the ʻokina <U+02BB>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/PDF_samples This is important for some languages of Oceania (Tongan and Samoan). I've managed to get a Samoan L10n effort started and knowing that the ʻokina glyph will be properly presented is reassuring. cjl _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel