On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:24:09PM +1030, Clytie Siddall wrote: > Many thanks to Peter, and welcome to Davide! :) thanx > We've seen a lot of progress with the devavu font package in the past > few months. It is currently the best free-software pan-Unicode font > displaying Vietnamese, which is a testament to the dedicated efforts > of its developers to respond to the specific needs of different > languages. I recommend it as the appropriate default-install font for > my language. yes, I'm really excited about dejavu: it's very well maintained, has a monthly release cycle and the excellent #dejavu channel on Freenode with very helpful people > Davide's regular posts to the deb18n list, asking for feedback on the > increasingly familiar D-I screenshot, deserved a good outcome. The screenshots are very g-i oriented; I'd like to set up something more general... more about this in the near future > Where are we with dejavu and different languages? Is there any > language represented in Debian which still has display issues with > dejavu? Christian's message gave you a good overview of the coverage; worth mentioning about [1] for a complete per-language information. As for the future of Dejavu, it already includes Arabic scripts (not used in g-i) which need to be improved; ppl are working on designing Georgian fonts which will be integrate in Dejavu, there are rumors about Bengali support. ciao, Davide [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIFonts
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