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:Please spend your time constructively in enhancing the page to properly cover non-Latin scripts. [[User:Simosx|Simosx]] 14:51, 1 June 2006 (EDT) |
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:Gentium is a well-known free font, licensed with the Open Font License. It is a Serif font that covers the [http://www.unicode.org/charts full Latin Unicode block], which means it supports sufficiently Brazil and Nigeria. I do not know whether Gentium is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting hinted], which might be an issue when used for the User Interface. 15:00, 1 June 2006 (EDT) |
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=== Work in progress === |
=== Work in progress === |
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Revision as of 19:00, 1 June 2006
This is the area for dicsussions of the Font Common Room page.
General Note: Most (if not all) of the people involved in these pages they do so out of their free time and because they enjoy doing it. It's fun. These pages are being developed and are work in progress. If you have a comment, make it in a civilised and modern manner. Read more about what a Wiki is.
The following paragraph was moved here from the Font Common Room page. It refers to the section that talks about fontconfig (sans, serif, monospace), etc.
- This entire discussion seems to be ignorant of the development work that has been done, outside of the Linux community, in developping Unicode fonts. The prime example is Gentium which covers most of the scripts needed. Any work in improving coverage should add glyphs to existing Unicode fonts like Gentium. Also, please not that concepts such as sans, serif and monospace do not exist at all in many of the world's scripts. Most scripts also do not have upper/lower case distinctions.
- Please spend your time constructively in enhancing the page to properly cover non-Latin scripts. Simosx 14:51, 1 June 2006 (EDT)
- Gentium is a well-known free font, licensed with the Open Font License. It is a Serif font that covers the full Latin Unicode block, which means it supports sufficiently Brazil and Nigeria. I do not know whether Gentium is hinted, which might be an issue when used for the User Interface. 15:00, 1 June 2006 (EDT)
Work in progress
Below are some fragments that may make it in the front page.
| Brazil | China | India | Nigeria | Thailand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin | Tibetan བོད་ཡིག, Simplified chinese 简体字 | Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Limbu, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Syloti Nagri, , Tamil, Telugu | Pannigerian | Thai |
Important issues to figure out
- Is there a requirement for the font to be hinted?
- We still do not know if there is a requirement for fontconfig. This should probably come out soon.
- We do not know if there will be a requirement for the applications to be based on GTK+ 2.x/Pango
- add here