Thought (hope really) this might interest some of you; the thread is being discussed on the dejavu ML [1] regards, Davide [1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts ----- Forwarded message from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> ----- From: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-4.fc6 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:28:13 +0100 (CET) To: miki <hyggr060@ybb.ne.jp> Cc: dejavu-fonts@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Japanese font... Le Jeu 1 mars 2007 03:13, miki a écrit : > I am a Japanese. > Dejavu fonts is unicode, but they don't include Japanese font... > Please include Japanese fonts... DejaVu will include japanese glyphs when a glyph designer decides to contribute them to the project (same way armenian, lao, etc happened). Dejavu tries to do a good quality font - that means it does not coble together glyphs of various origin and quality to achieve the widest unicode coverage, but only merges stuff that is up to the quality level of current glyphs. OTOH unlike other font projects DejaVu is not limited to any particular region of the world. Any submission up to the font standards will be merged, even if it covers unicode blocks totally different from the ones currently worked on. One first step is to open an entry in DejaVu bugzilla to register your interest in japanese glyphs (to be honest we know people would like japanese but it's an awful lot of glyphs so just opening an entry is not likely to lead to quick japanese support) What could lead to quick japanese support is if you could ask some japanese designers to contribute to the project (we do prefer internationnal glyphs to be done by local people that know local style/typographical conventions). They do not need to be professionnal designers BTW - dejavu tooling is 100% FLOSS and available in major distribution so anyone with some art sense and free time can contribute new glyphs (art/CS students, etc). Some of the major DejaVu contributors never designed any font before joining the project. Do not worry about "we can't merge japanese because people will yell at first" concerns. The project has various ways (from removal of uncomplete blocks in releases, branching, etc) to deal with it. Breakage happens when you do new stuff. If dejavu refused temporaty breakage it would be a static font. -- Nicolas Mailhot ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DejaVu-fonts mailing list DejaVu-fonts@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dejavu-fonts ----- End forwarded message -----
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