Pekka, thank you for a fast reply! I guess I'll bundle then the required subset of Noto fonts for the time being.
Rinigus On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Pekka Vuorela <pekka.vuor...@jolla.com> wrote: > On pe, 2017-05-05 at 13:43 +0300, rinigus wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am developing an application that has to have an access to the > > fonts covering all languages. While coverage of the fonts distributed > > with SFOS has improved in 2.1, I still get failure with rendering > > Sinhala in QML. Probably some other scripts are missing as well. > > > > For technical reasons, I need to specify the fonts used for rendering > > in the program or accompanying style files. Changing that would be > > far from trivial and I would prefer to specify font paths and names > > for now when compiling program/generating styles. > > > > Hence my questions: > > > > * Do we have somewhere a list of fonts that are always available on > > SFOS and their path (directories)? I could see a bunch of fonts under > > /usr/share/fonts, I presume that's all we have for now. > > Yea, that's what we have. > > > * Probably correct way to tackle the font rendering issue would be to > > include Noto fonts (or something similar). Ideally, it should be done > > via a separate package. I can include all the required fonts in RPM, > > but that would blow up the package probably by ~40MB in size > > (uncompressed 52MB, zip compressed 42MB). Sounds a bit like a waste > > of bandwidth, but probably the only way to do that in agreement with > > the Harbour policies. Jolla, any plans to include Noto (or similar) > > fonts into SFOS distribution? Or changes in policies allowing us to > > push fonts to the devices? > > While font coverage is slowly getting better, there are unfortunately > still lot of scripts missing. What we've added has been done with the > aim to have it mixing nicely with existing fonts, sometimes making > small adjustments here and there. > > Including a big set of Noto fonts or similar is not in the plans right > now, would require quite a bunch of fonts. The best thing for you could > be just including custom fonts in the application if those are needed. > > If there are certain scripts people would really like to have, would be > good to have votes on together.jolla.com. > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list > To unsubscribe, please send a mail to devel-unsubscribe@lists. > sailfishos.org
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