On 1/3/07, Alexander van Loon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I commented on that bug and asked for information. It seems that the bug > is a Pango bug, not a DejaVu bug, and that DejaVu has worked around the > bug. Currently when using DejaVu from Ubuntu's repo on Edgy, the bug > does not show up. > Now that this bug is ruled out, are there other reasons for not adopting > DejaVu as the default font in Ubuntu yet? >
That specific bug wasn't the problem, read the whole discussion. >From Behdad in that discussion: > All Microsoft fonts with Arabic glyphs are absolutely ugly for Persian, the > Arabic glyphs in DejaVu will definitely be ugly for Persian too, for a very > simple reason: Arabic fonts are ugly for Persian speakers. Persian simply > prefer other styles. Persian fonts and Arabic fonts are not suitable for > Urdu. > And these three languages share the same script, aka the Arabic script. So, > no matter how much effort you put into making the Arabic glyphs in DejaVu > perfect, it will be: > > 1) Not needed for 5 billion of people in the world that don't know Arabic, > you are just making a lean Latin font, a huge pig now. > > 2) Unusable for Persian and Urdu speakers, a good few hundred millions, and > they cannot easily use DejaVu with their favorite Persian/Urdu font anymore. > > 3) Not necessarily the style they want to use with their DejaVu font for > those who actually are Arabic speakers, and again, you have made it harder for > them to choose which font to use for which script. -- Travis Watkins http://www.realistanew.com -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
