Bernardo, When you replace simplified fonts with the full version: are you able to input Ethiopean with the code provided?
Sergey On 8/22/07, Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I'm moving to devel@ so we don't need to Cc too many people) > > Bernardo Innocenti wrote: > > Sergey Udaltsov wrote: > > > I cannot tell you which font was used by my Ubuntu - I just see those > > > glyphs rendered more of less correctly (see attached). If you're > > > interested, I can provide you with the list of fonts I have installed. > > > > I see them just fine in Firefox on my F7 development machine, but not on > > the laptop. Weird... > > It turns out that the DejaVu font has the Ethiopian glyphs, but > there's also a simplified font called DejaVuLGC which is what > we're shipping on the OLPC. > > I just talked with Walter and J5 and we agreed that it makes no sense > to ship a huge font with all glyphs when we're already going to have > a custom images for each country where we can easily add language > specific fonts. > > But now I looked at DejaVu to see how bigger it is and it seems to > me that it's not worth it after all: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 448K 2007-08-11 07:42 DejaVuLGCSans.ttf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 557K 2007-08-11 07:42 DejaVuSans.ttf > > The RPMs for the complete DejaVu font are even *smaller*: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0M 2007-08-11 07:43 > dejavu-fonts-2.19-1.fc8.noarch.rpm > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.3M 2007-08-11 07:42 > dejavu-lgc-fonts-2.19-1.noarch.rpm > > (but that's because DejaVuLGC also comes with Condensed variants). > > So, is there another reason why we couldn't just switch to it? > Currently, we're shipping arabic and thai fonts in all builds. > If the DejaVu support for these languages is good enough, we > could save even more space. > > -- > // Bernardo Innocenti > \X/ http://www.codewiz.org/ > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel