Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:52:25PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
and pango is happy doing pointy-clicky things with other locales.
Only if I bloat my installation with these useless font packages I am not able to read nor type in any case.
No doubt some non English speakers feel the same about English fonts
Nope.
I am non-English.
I learned English as a language with "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" characters, which are the same as ascii -- at least for the "international" technical English.
Any not-end-user computer man -- a sysadmin, a programmer, an advanced user -- is aware of the technical English anyway. It is like a "computer esperanto" for him.
~buc