On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Christian Perrier wrote: > We need people with skills regarding fonts in the Debian Installer > development list. Please come on the debian-boot mailing list at > lists.debian.org...or, at the minimum please followup to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
just the bug cc'ed for now. I'm suffering from list overload. > > Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb > > Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems > whith > Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems: > > * there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts > and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Bengali) > > * freefonts are used as default font for Bengali even if you include > a specific font package such as ttf-bengali-fonts ([3]) > Soumyadip said something to me about the situation with freefont improving but I've forgotten what it is. Soumyadip? ... > I also would like to know if we need all those font files or we can > use just a minimal subset (LikhanNormal.ttf is ok?) Each font has the entire set of glyphs needed for a particular script so you would only need one. > which could be > packaged in an udeb in the future. > We (Debian-IN) discussed this topic in the past. Assuming we can't rely on freefont doing the right thing, our choices are 1. A single udeb containing one font for each script. 2. One seperate udeb for each script 3. A single udeb containing a "superfont" containing all the glyphs for all the scripts. does the installer team have any preference? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]