On 10 March 2014 13:50, Paul Flo Williams paul@frixxon.co.uk wrote:
I think the Latin-centric view is that any standard English pangram is reasonable, so they don't supply it.
Yes, that's fair enough.
Non-Latin scripts would really benefit from some good sample text.
Is there any precedent here? Like a Punjabi version of "How quickly daft jumping zebras vex" that shows off the majority of the glyphs?
As the font packaging guidelines now require us to make font metadata corrections for licence-related strings, meaning you'll see more font packages using tools like ttname, it isn't a big leap to suggest that we also supply readsonable sample text, and suggest that upstream include it.
That would be awesome. More fonts also using TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_FAMILY correctly would be great for my uses too.
Richard.