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Re: Fonts for distribution




On 22/02/2006, at 6:26 PM, SZERVÁC Attila wrote:

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote:

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

 Gentium still is not free

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341138

 (due the prohibition of license mod in deriv. works)

The Open Font Licence doesn't allow us to distribute it? :(

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.

Bistream Vera doesn't supports latin2 chars correctly. See ttf - dejavu
instead.

Sorry, I meant release to dejavu. The creator of Verajja has just replied to me, and says he has already given permission for the Verajja glyphs to be included with Dejavu. This is good news. :)

Junicode is another true Unicode font:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode

 Junicode is also acceptable for Latin2.

It's not the best overall choice, because of the heavy serif, which isn't best with a lot of accents. It's good to have as a secondary font, though.

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

 I dunno. What about gsfonts, thryomanes?

I don't know those. Where do I get them to test?

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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