Re: [g-i] new screenshots available

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 22/06/2006, at 10:31 AM, Davide Viti wrote:

> Dejavu 2.7 has made it into unstable and things are happening on the
> font side. I just created a new set of screenshots in [1]; everything
> is pretty much the best we can do atm, apart from Arabic / Farsi (see
> #374720)
> It would be interesting to have some feedback from native speakers;  
> I'd be
> particularly interested to know how is Vietnamese displayed using  
> Dejavu
> (we don't use freefont anylonger to display it) and how non-latin  
> languages
> look like.
> I noticed that using experimental g-i images based on latest
> libraries, everything looks more consistent, that's why I don't think
> it's the right time to spend time on fixing fonts file: I think  
> I'll give
> a go at font hacking once new libraries will be available.
>
> regards,
> Davide
>
> [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/gtk-frontend/screenshots/ 
> 20060621_dejavu2.7/

In Vietnamese, it's just readable at that size, but it's not very  
good. I have to guess some of the diacritics from the context,  
because they blend into each other, there's just a blob instead of  
two distinct diacritics. The a-grave is definitely weird, almost  
separates the a from the previous character: the grave should be  
centred above the vowel.

I'm downloading the package, and will send you a detailed critique. I  
hope that will be useful. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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