Adding georgian support in anaconda

[George Machitidze]

Hello,

I want to know what is finally needed to add support of this language
in installations and language-selection utiliy.

1. Entry in lang-table file (anaconda) - "Georgian        ka
latarcyrheb-sun16       ka_GE.UTF-8     us      Asia/Tbilisi"
2. Bitmap fonts (must be available soon in unifont)
3. GTK fonts
4. Entry in scripts/genlocalelist.py (anaconda).
...
...

I see there is a freeze, but i want to test georgianized version,
because i know there are problems with fonts.  I have created patch
for anaconda for georgian schools, but i get cubes with georgian
support, so i removed ka.po from anaconda package. After installation
i've got some ugly fonts (there are no unicode fonts for georgian in
fedora, but maybe i saw ugly "fixed" or "unifont")

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mar 26 septembre 2006 23:40, George Machitidze a écrit :
> I see there is a freeze, but i want to test georgianized version,
> because i know there are problems with fonts.  I have created patch
> for anaconda for georgian schools, but i get cubes with georgian
> support, so i removed ka.po from anaconda package. After installation
> i've got some ugly fonts (there are no unicode fonts for georgian in
> fedora, but maybe i saw ugly "fixed" or "unifont")

On Georgian truetype support in Fedora :

You can work on pushing these GPL fonts in Fedora Extras
http://bpg.sytes.net/BPG-InfoTech/sppro/bpg/publication_view.asp?iabspos=1&a...

or find some people interested in designing/learning to design glyphs and
work with the dejavu project (dejavu.sf.net). Unfortunately the GPL
licensing of BGP is uncompatible with the license Bitream chose for Vera,
so a font merge is not possible (it would require some work anyway to make
the metrics and style compatible, though certainly less than starting from
scratch).

DejaVu recently gained and Armenian block so adding Georgian would
certainly make sense.

On the FC6 timeline :

It's way too late to push this in FC6. Moreover I think you'll find out
that between testing fonts and apps for georgian support, fixing problems
and so on you really need to start now if you want to be ready by FC7 time

Regards,

[Aiet Kolkhi]

There is already ongoing project to add Georgian portion to DejaVu.

Please consult with DejaVu maintainer.

Regards,
Aiet

[George Machitidze]

Thank you for information Nicolas, i will contact BPG, Djvu and i'll
test it all in development version.

On 9/27/06, Nicolas Mailhot  wrote:
> Le Mar 26 septembre 2006 23:40, George Machitidze a écrit :
> > I see there is a freeze, but i want to test georgianized version,
> > because i know there are problems with fonts.  I have created patch
> > for anaconda for georgian schools, but i get cubes with georgian
> > support, so i removed ka.po from anaconda package. After installation
> > i've got some ugly fonts (there are no unicode fonts for georgian in
> > fedora, but maybe i saw ugly "fixed" or "unifont")
>
> On Georgian truetype support in Fedora :
>
> You can work on pushing these GPL fonts in Fedora Extras
> http://bpg.sytes.net/BPG-InfoTech/sppro/bpg/publication_view.asp?iabspos=1&a...
>
> or find some people interested in designing/learning to design glyphs and
> work with the dejavu project (dejavu.sf.net). Unfortunately the GPL
> licensing of BGP is uncompatible with the license Bitream chose for Vera,
> so a font merge is not possible (it would require some work anyway to make
> the metrics and style compatible, though certainly less than starting from
> scratch).
>
> DejaVu recently gained and Armenian block so adding Georgian would
> certainly make sense.
>
> On the FC6 timeline :
>
> It's way too late to push this in FC6. Moreover I think you'll find out
> that between testing fonts and apps for georgian support, fixing problems
> and so on you really need to start now if you want to be ready by FC7 time
>
> Regards,
>
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> Nicolas Mailhot
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