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Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font




On 22/02/2006, at 3:44 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:

I'm still very seriously considering the possible use of terminus
fonts as default for the installed system....

I've just become involved in a thread on gnome-i18n about getting true Unicode fonts for distros.

Gentium (a true Unicode font) has been released under the Open Font Licence:

http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=83

and Doulos looks worth testing:

http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=91

We're not getting anywhere, apparently, with lobbying Bitstream about Vera, but I've written to the creator of Verajja and Gentium Alt about possible release of his fonts.

Jim Gettys very kindly replied to my query about his lobbying of Bitstream, and said:

I will be poking at other font vendors.  I recently
poked at Adobe, but it isn't the part of Adobe that deals with fonts, so
I have no idea if I'll get anywhere from that attempt.

so, hoping the Poke is with him, we should hear if there's any progress. I personally don't think Adobe, who assume ordinary people can pay $2000 for a program, have much grip on the economic realities of life in the third world.

Junicode is another true Unicode font:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode

and there is a group of Unicode fonts created for Vietnamese, but which cover the whole code set AFAIK.

http://www.vn.net/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=4

Everson Mono, a true monospaced Unicode font, turns out to be shareware :(.

What others do we have? What do you think are our best true Unicode fonts for distribution, to support all localizations?

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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