naming scheme for fonts packages?

[Jens Petersen]

Jatin Nansi wrote:
> Why not fonts-<script_name> instead of fonts-<language_name>. For 
> example, fonts-hindi is also the font used for marathi, nepali, and 
> sanskrit. So just use fonts-devnagri.

Right, I do agree with that.  We really need to distinguish the 
(spoken/written) language from the script itself.  And some languages 
can also be written in more than one script for example.

(Which is why I still rather like the name fonts-tibetan for the Tibetan 
script fonts.)

Having said that, using script names rather than language names does 
make the naming a little less obvious to non-native users and 
developers.  But I see that as less of a problem since normal users 
shouldn't really have to worry about the names of fonts packages for 
languages but just use pirut to add appropriate language support.

Jens