[Fedora-i18n-list] Configuring default font
by Ali Majdzadeh
Hello All
Sorry, if my question is elementary. I have installed Persian fonts. Is
there a way to configure the system to use a special font as the system
default font? I can view and edit text using installed fonts, but I don't
know how I can specify a font to be the default one. (For example, in
desktop environments or widgets' captions.)
Best Regards
Ali
16 years, 4 months
Volunteer Needed: fedora-i18n-list Admin
by Warren Togami
Anyone here want to be a list admin for fedora-i18n-list?
I would prefer to give list ownership to someone who is already a
developer within the Fedora Project. When accepted you will become
co-owner of this list along with Jens Petersen.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
16 years, 7 months
String changes for pirut to add error messages
by Jeremy Katz
This is a request to break the string freeze for pirut to add some error
messages when handling repo editing. Not doing so means we either need
to
a) rip out the capability
b) not handle errors
c) only give a generic "Error" type of thing rather than useful error
messages
d) don't mark the strings for translation and have them show up in
English only
None of which feel all that right to me. So sound reasonable?
Jeremy
16 years, 8 months
installing more fonts by default for better international coverage
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
Hi,
In the recent online I18n session at FUDConF8 there was some discussion
of installation defaults related to international language support, and
it was suggested that we should be installing more fonts by default to
get better desktop language display coverage out of the box.
So I would like to propose we start installing the following fonts by
default on the desktop:
fonts-ISO8859-2, fonts-KOI8-R, fonts-arabic, fonts-chinese,
fonts-hebrew, fonts-indic, fonts-japanese, fonts-korean, fonts-sinhala,
and xorg-x11-fonts.
I believe the mainstream commercial desktop OS's already do this.
dejavu-fonts and dejavu-fonts-experimental also occur in quite a few
language groups, so they might be worth including too?
Any comments or suggestions on this?
Jens
16 years, 8 months
Re: [proposal] fonts comps group
by Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 27 août 2007 à 18:47 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> BTW after talking with Behdad and upstream on irc we'll probably try to
> switch dejavu-lgc & dejavu at the start of the F9 cycle.
BTW #2
Supporting unicode blocks like arabic by default is only possible today
because the tools have learnt to select different variants of the same
glyph depending on the language being rendered (ie farsi users will get
farsi-friendly variants, and arabic users arabic-friendly variants at
the same codepoints). In particular Behdad Esfahbod recently added
"locl" opentype support to Pango. Kuddos to Behdad!
However this is not the end of the story. Strictly speaking arabic (and
many other non-european scripts) also need support of the "base"
opentype feature to be rendered properly (base allows specifying
different metrics for different unicode blocks within a single font, and
not constrain everything with the metrics of the latin block)
Supporting those scripts without base will mean a metric migration once
base support is included in the tools at last. ie the fonts will have to
be partly re-done, and every office document using them will have layout
changes if they use one of the complex scripts (and business users will
complain). This will also affect documents that use proprietary
pan-unicode fonts such as those produced by the Microsoft Typography
group.
Therefore I'd like to point out to the PTB it might be a good idea to
allocate some time @rh for Behdad to add base support to pango sooner
rather than later, and avoid this painful migration altogether.
(Of course this assumes the PTB read fedora-devel)
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot
16 years, 8 months
i18n session at VirtualFudCon
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
As part of the Online Fedora UnConference (3-8 Aug) [1]
I propose having a i18n session to follow on from
our IRC meeting one month ago.
I am thinking to do it at the beginning of next week
(Monday or Tuesday morning in East Asia, eg 2007-08-07 00:00 UTC).
I would like to fix the day and time ASAP so if you have any
strong preferences please let us know.
Also we need to set an agenda for the session.
So if you any particular topics for session please
post those too. I'll setup a wiki page for it soon.
Thanks, Jens
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JefSpaleta/VirtualFudCon
--
Jens Petersen
Internationalization Team
Red Hat
16 years, 8 months
Re: How to input CJK fonts to the "leave a message"?
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
hanpingtian(a)gmail.com wrote:
> I think it will be good to be able to input CJK fonts to the "leave
> message" window of locked screen. Is there a method to active SCIM
> when X-window be locked?
Ah, interesting idea - I hadn't thought of that yet.
I *think* it would require running scim (IM) from gdm.
Could you file a request (RFE) for this in bugzilla, please?
Jens
16 years, 8 months
