Cantarell font

2011-02-16 Thread Lucian Adrian Grijincu
Hi, GNOME3 will feature a new default font: Cantarell http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/gnome-3-getting-better-by-the-day/ I don't know who took this decision, why and on what merits and I don't want to start a flame war on this. The font is quite limited with respect to character covera

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-16 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > Hi, > > GNOME3 will feature a new default font: Cantarell > http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/gnome-3-getting-better-by-the-day/ > > I don't know who took this decision, why and on what merits and I > don't want to start a fl

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-16 Thread Owen Taylor
"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" wrote: > To: "Lucian Adrian Grijincu" > > The font is quite limited with respect to character coverage. For > > example it does not have all characters required for the Romanian > > language (I've recently added those characters and sent a message to > > the maintainer). >

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-16 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: >> I see now why text in my laptop looks crappy (I'm testing Vietnamese >> version of gnome-shell). Any way to set default font per locale? > > Bit in a hurry at the monent, so I'll quote a relevant IRC conversation from > yesterday that hopeful

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-17 Thread Jorge González
Hello, On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:52, Owen Taylor wrote: > "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" wrote: >> To: "Lucian Adrian Grijincu" > >> > The font is quite limited with respect to character coverage. For >> > example it does not have all characters required for the Romanian >> > language (I've recently a

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-17 Thread Lucian Adrian Grijincu
2011/2/17 Jorge González : > Sorry, I'm not sure I've understand it. For Spanish, I can write most > of our characters, however you cannot see them correctly in capital > letters, so, would this be included into your snippet? Wouldn't it be better to add the missing characters to the font instead

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > 2011/2/17 Jorge González : > > Sorry, I'm not sure I've understand it. For Spanish, I can write most > > of our characters, however you cannot see them correctly in capital > > letters, so, would this be included into your sn

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-17 Thread Lucian Adrian Grijincu
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to add the missing characters to the font instead? > > Of course, but then it will be done by the time of gnome4 :) The Spanish alphabet does no

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 02:46:48PM +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > >> Wouldn't it be better to add the missing characters to the font instead? > > > > Of course

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-17 Thread Jorge González
Hello: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 13:46, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: >>> Wouldn't it be better to add the missing characters to the font instead? >> >> Of course, but

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-21 Thread Kenneth Nielsen
I have just had a look at the font and I can reassure the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and German teams that we should be on the safe side for our special characters (if I have remembered all of them). The following characters are present in both the regular and the bold version of the font. æøåöäÆØ

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-21 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Kenneth Nielsen wrote: > I have just had a look at the font and I can reassure the Danish, > Swedish, Norwegian and German teams that we should be on the safe side More languages are. From [1]: Each font file currently contains 391 glyphs, and fully support the f

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-21 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:       owen, I'm the package owner so I guess it's my turn to learn how fontconfig works > cosimoc: I think that what you need to do is to match on the Cantarell family > name, and then replace it with the Cantarell family name, but as a weak >

Re: Cantarell font

2011-02-21 Thread Александър Шопов
В 01:23 +0200 на 17.02.2011 (чт), Lucian Adrian Grijincu написа: > if the font has support for all characters needed for their language. There is no Cyrillic support in the font. Sigh. al_shopov ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mai