[Bug 1036462] New: Review Request: unifont - Tools and glyph descriptions in the unifont format

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036462

            Bug ID: 1036462
           Summary: Review Request: unifont - Tools and glyph descriptions
                    in the unifont format
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: Package Review
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
          Assignee: nobody at fedoraproject.org
          Reporter: zbyszek at in.waw.pl
        QA Contact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: package-review at lists.fedoraproject.org



Spec URL: http://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/unifont.spec
SRPM URL: http://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/unifont-6.3.20131020-1.fc20.src.rpm
Description: Tools and glyph descriptions in the unifont format
Fedora Account System Username: zbyszek

Unifont is a Unicode font with a glyph for every visible Unicode Basic
Multilingual Plane code point and more, with supporting utilities to
modify the font. The latest version of Unifont includes approximately
54,700 glyphs for all the visible Unicode BMP code points. Of this,
almost 28,000 glyphs are Chinese-Japanese-Korean (CJK) ideographs from
Qianqian Fang's Wen Quan Yi bitmap font.

>From this source package two binary packages are produced: unifont contains the
tools and .hex sources, and unifont-fonts contains the .ttf font.

Some history: unifont development stalled around 2003-2004, and unifont was
superseded by wqy-unibit-fonts [1]. But later on unifont development resumed,
and wqy-unibit-fonts manager supported the idea of additionally packaging
unifont [2]. Recently unifont development has (again) resumed, and the project
made the first release under GNU umbrella.

I'd like to package unifont because of it's unique text-based format. It'll
likely be used by systemd as an emergency font in
initramfs/system-boot/rescue-shell conditions [3].

[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/wqy-unibit-fonts
[2] http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-fonts/msg00391.html
[3]
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-November/014813.html

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