[Design-team] Fedora Branding Fonts

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 15:48 -0400, Máirín Duffy a écrit :
>  accents seem to work.
> 
> If I write 'Máirín' in MgOpen Modata, the á and í print out, but not in
> the MgOpen Modata letterforms. Instead the font system falls back to
> DejaVu (I believe, could be another fallback font but looks like DejaVu
> to me).

You can easily test the language coverage of a font file using the
command:

FC_DEBUG=256 fc-query <filename>

It will print all sorts of information, including a list of ISO 639
language codes followed by the number of associated missing codepoints
in the font file. For example:

aa(10) ab(90) af(17) ak(21) am(264) an(14) ar(36) as(64) ast(14) av(67) 
ay(8) { 00c4 00cf 00d1 00dc 00e4 00ef 00f1 00fc }
        az-az(14) az-ir(40) ba(82) be(68) ber-dz(18) ber-ma(32) bg(60) 
…
de(7) { 00c4 00d6 00dc 00df 00e4 00f6 00fc }
        dv(49) dz(95) ee(47) el(0) en(20) eo(12) es(14) et(12)
…

If the number is zero (el(0)) the font file contains all the bits needed
to write the associated language (Greek, not surprizing since Modata is
a Greek font), if it is non-zero it is missing this number of
codepoints, if it is non-zero and less than ten fc-query will print the
list of missing codepoints after the language number :
ay(8) { 00c4 00cf 00d1 00dc 00e4 00ef 00f1 00fc }

Of course just because a font includes support for lots of codepoints
does not mean they are all well designed. So it's just a minimal test.

Also don't test just the Normal font, the coverage of Bold/Italic/etc
can ans is often different.

As for Modata, ga(28) means it sucks for Gaelic (Irish)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot