[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1146002] New: RFE: New Default Console Font

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146002

            Bug ID: 1146002
           Summary: RFE: New Default Console Font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
         Component: langtable
          Assignee: mfabian(a)redhat.com
          Reporter: myllynen(a)redhat.com
        QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, mfabian(a)redhat.com



A new console font, eurlatgr, was recently added to kbd and it should be better
default console font for European based languages written in Latin or Greek
script. eurlatgr is based on latarcyrheb-sun16 so the typeface does not change.

eurlatgr would bring these changes over the current default latarcyrheb-sun16:

* full compatibility with latarcyrheb-sun16 for Latin script and special
characters
 - Arabic/Cyrillic/Hebrew are not supported at all by eurlatgr so those users
should still stay with latarcyrheb-sun16
 - non-European languages written in Latin script (like Vietnamese) are not
fully supported but perhaps a bit more so than with latarcyrheb-sun16
 - the only non-Arabic/Cyrillic/Hebrew characters not present in eurlatgr but
in latarcyrheb-sun16 are U+F800 and U+F804 which are not valid Unicode
characters so the use case for them is unclear, especially today. These could
be re-added if there's a real need for them but if not, dropping them is ok
* full support for all European languages written in Latin script
* full support for Greek
* full support for a huge list of characters and character sets (see [1])
* support for a wide range of accented Latin characters not present in
latarcyrheb-sun16 to allow people to write their names correctly
* support for glyphs used by some systemd(1) utilities
* support for glyphs used by man(1) (see e.g. the bottom of unicode(7) how some
characters are not displayed properly under latarcyrheb-sun16)
* support for glyphs that have become popular recently, like the smiley
(☺) and arrows (e.g. →)

Note that there is a hard limit of 512 glyphs for console fonts so having more
glyphs available in a console font is not possible unless remapping some
characters to others. Not all remappings in eurlatgr are less pixel-perfect but
still give a good idea what a character is supposed to be rather than merely
displaying the "box" to indicate an unsupported character.

1)
http://git.altlinux.org/people/legion/packages/kbd.git?p=kbd.git;a=blob;f...

Thanks.

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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1146002] RFE: New Default Console Font

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146002

Marko Myllynen <myllynen(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |1182479




Referenced Bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182479
[Bug 1182479] New Default Console Font
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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1146002] RFE: New Default Console Font

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--- Comment #1 from Marko Myllynen <myllynen(a)redhat.com&gt; ---
I think langtable itself works correctly (at least in general), for example:

[root@localhost ~]# cat test.py 
#!/usr/bin/python3

import langtable
from langtable import list_consolefonts

print(list_consolefonts(languageId="de", territoryId="DE"))
print(list_consolefonts(languageId="fi"))
print(list_consolefonts(territoryId="GR"))
print(list_consolefonts(languageId="ru", territoryId="RU"))
print(list_consolefonts(languageId="ru"))
print(list_consolefonts(languageId="he"))
[root@localhost ~]# python3 ./test.py
['eurlatgr']
['eurlatgr']
['eurlatgr', 'iso07u-16', 'LatGrkCyr-8x16']
['latarcyrheb-sun16']
['latarcyrheb-sun16']
['latarcyrheb-sun16']
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q langtable langtable-python3
langtable-0.0.31-1.fc22.noarch
langtable-python3-0.0.31-1.fc22.noarch
[root@localhost ~]# 

Thanks.

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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1146002] RFE: New Default Console Font

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Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |NEXTRELEASE
        Last Closed|                            |2015-04-14 06:54:50



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