Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl): > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > > From the work done when the work on Amharic started quite a while ago, > > the ttf-sil-abyssinica font is suggested by the translator for good > > rendering of that language. > > > > So, I asked its maintainer to provide a udeb package > > I assume this was because the glyphs needed are not in freefont? Yes. The Ethiopic Unicode Bloc: U+1200-U+1399 > > > which just appeared today. > > I can't see anything yet... I sent the mail when we got the notification of the package being ACCEPTED. > > > So, everything is now ready to add this package to the g-i images and > > have finally correct support of Amharic. > > > > Are there any objections to this ? > > What is its size? 220kb > What fonts are included in it? If there are, do we need all of them? Only one font (/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-sil-abyssinica/Abyssinica_SIL.ttf). Indeed ttf-sil-abyssinica only provides one font. > Are there any overlaps with the freefont udeb? Should any of those overlaps > be excluded? The font overlaps in the Latin base range: U+0020-U+00FF (actually, the font also covers ISO-8859-1), that's all. --
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