On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Martin Sevior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Currently Write ships with a set of templates that define > the default fonts. Currently every single one of these templates uses > "DejaVu Serif" as the default font family. > > "DejaVu Serif" is great for Western European based Languages but has no > glyphs for complex script languages like Arabic, Hebrew or any of the > Indic countries. > > "DejaVu Sans" has much better glyph coverage, especially for Arabic, > however there may be even better font families for Arabic and there > certainly are for many other languages.
I put a list of Debian Linux fonts at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Fonts#Debian_Linux_fonts. It states the package name, the languages and writing systems covered, and the names of the fonts. There are similar RPMs, but I don't have the list. > OK my point about this is in order to provide the optimum experience for > children in these countries we would like to know which family provides > the best fonts for those countries. I can answer that question for some writing systems, and tell you whom to ask for the others. > If we don't get this info the next best thing is to change the templates > to use "DejaVu Sans" to countries where we know "DejaVu Serif" doesn't > work. > > Does anyone have objections to this? > > Cheers > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai Give One, Get One, from Nov. 17 http://www.amazon.com/xo http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Giving/International _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
