Fonts in Fedora Workstation

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Fri Mar 14 14:14:58 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 15:43 +0200, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> As you may know, the technical specification's package list is still
> missing fonts.
> 
> 
> As language support is an important thing, I suggest we should start
> of with ALL the fonts currently in the default Desktop install, and
> not remove any of them: only add.
> 
> 
> Having Fedora Workstation degrade the language support of default
> Fedora is a bad idea.

That sounds fine to me as a starting point.

A later refinement would be to actually define the list of supported
languages, based on some criteria (e.g. >= 80% translated). When we have
that, we can include only fonts and input methods for supported
languages.




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