Re: [g-i] freefont vs. dejavu
> > I'm considering to strip font files specifying the ranges to include
> > rather than the ranges that we want to exclude, what do you think
> > about this?
>
> For freefont exclusion (ranges we know are covered by other fonts and
> ranges for which we know there are no translations (yet)) is maybe more
> logical (probably easier to document too); for other fonts inclusion
> definitely. I'll leave it to you though to decide what works best.
this actually simplify things, given the number of languages which is
covered by freefont. If we're using freefont also to display Cyrillic,
Christian just needs to comment the following line from "FreeSans-strip":
ranges="$ranges u0400:u052F" # Cyrilic
and now that I filed #357154 we have a good excuse to ask for another
upload of the package; I'd like to do some tests before the new upload.
> > removing dejavu (or freefont if the new dejavu can cover everything),
> > would simplify and reduce overhead (basic latin glyphs, as you
> > mentioned above, are not stripped to preserve consistency: i.e. at
> > least u0:u7f = 128 glyphs are included in each and every ttf file
> > including bold/oblique)
>
> Hmm. Not sure we need to include basic latin for e.g. arabic and indic
> fonts. Guess that depends on how different the included characters are
> from freefont (both style and size should be considered).
> I've no problem with leaving them in initially though.
yes, I would start leaving those glyphs.
I'd like to make a few considerations that justify the reason why I'm
getting more and more convinced that we need to reduce as much as possible
the number of font files:
Finnish contains "Moskova - +09 - Kamtšatka, Moskova+10 - Beringinmeri"
("Kamtšatka" contains <U0161> Latin Small Letter S With Caron)
French (among other languages) contains "São Paulo" in one of its
strings
the risk is to have a language displayed with one particular font and
one of the glyphs taken from another font file: this might look very
ugly.
> Next step is probably creating an iso that supports the font switching
> from localechooser to see how that behaves. I can probably do that quite
> quickly when you're ready with font tarballs.
K.
ciao,
Davide
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