Fonts in Fedora Workstation

Bill Nottingham notting at splat.cc
Fri Mar 14 15:10:44 UTC 2014


Elad Alfassa (elad at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> That doesn't really work. People whose language doesn't have an active
> translation team would still want to email their friends in their native
> language, or browse websites written in that language.

I can see why we wouldn't necessarily want to remove support for a language
with sparse translations (assuming it *works*), I think it's still a
worthwhile effort to track the translation and input status for languages so
we can properly inform users what languages do have first-class support.

Bill


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