[Bug 485857] New: Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

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Summary: Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

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Summary: Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation
                    fonts
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 10
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: low
          Priority: low
         Component: liberation-fonts
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
         QAContact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]
    Classification: Fedora

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Vietnamese Unicode characters

The Liberation fonts are missing the Vietnamese Unicode characters. I am not a
typography geek so I don't know which group those characters belong to.
I attached a file to show all the unicode characters of Vietnamese in normal
case and uppercase, I use Arial font for this.

[Bug 485857] Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

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--- Comment #1 from Caius "kaio" Chance   2009-02-22 23:08:56 EDT ---
* Vietnamese Vowel Plus Tone Mark Combinations *

"A portion of this block (U+1EA0..U+1EF9) comprises vowel letters of the modern
Vietnamese alphabet (quoc ngu) combined with a diacritic mark that denotes the
phonemic tone that applies to the syllable. In the modern Vietnamese alphabet,
there are 12 vowel letters and 5 tone marks." (The Unicode Consortium, "The
Unicode Standard 4.0". Addison Wesley, US, 2003.)

[Bug 485857] Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

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Caius "kaio" Chance  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |i18n

--- Comment #2 from Caius "kaio" Chance   2009-02-22 23:10:59 EDT ---
Currently I got no resources on this and my current skills level is not enough
to deal with hintings from scratch.

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--- Comment #3 from Caius 'kaio' Chance   2009-06-30 23:01:11 EDT ---
Adding new glpyhs is currently not planned.

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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |CANTFIX

--- Comment #4 from Truong Xuan Tinh   2009-07-01 00:24:11 EDT ---
I'm still on the way finding a good monospace font which fully support
Vietnamese characters, 'cause I'm a programmer. Hope that Redhat will devote
more resource to solve this problem. I will close this bug
Thanks anyway.

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--- Comment #5 from Caius 'kaio' Chance   2009-07-01 01:48:19 EDT ---
A possible solution I could think of, is you get a Vietnamese font and try to
make it 'monospace' with fontforge. (Also, I am not knowledgeable enough to
teach your the procedures.)

May be you could ask in ##fonts @ irc.freenode.net about how to make that.

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--- Comment #6 from Truong Xuan Tinh   2009-07-01 23:11:54 EDT ---
I'm sorry to say that Vietnamese does not have any serious font for
programming. The only monospace font which fully support Vietnamese characters
is Courier New (a Microsoft font), and Courier New is really uglier than
Liberation Mono! That's why I filed this *bug* :)