Fonts with default Fedora installation

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 27 August 2013 00:57, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:

> pravin.d.s at gmail.com (pravin.d.s at gmail.com) said:
> > >   Recently i done packaging of google-noto-fonts [1] for Fedora. With
> this
> > > font we got number of new script fonts of Unicode which were not
> available
> > > earlier. [2]
> > >
> > >   Just done editing of comps file and my question is out of these
> script
> > > fonts how many we suppose to install by default.
> > >
> > >   Presently we are following like at least one fonts for each script
> > > should be available with default installation, so if anyone while
> browsing
> > > web etc can get correct rendering for his script.
> > >
> > >   But here issue is supporting whole Unicode with default installation
> > > will be too much.
> > >
> > >   Might be we should only install fonts for BMP of Unicode and lets
> have
> > > other fonts installed by users when required (we do have feature in
> Fedora
> > > where if any fonts are not installed by default fontconfig search for
> > > particular script fonts.)
> > >
> > >   I have done comps editing by keeping above thing in mind. If anyone
> have
> > > other suggestion please let me know.
>
> Sticking to the BMP is probably a good starting point, although I can see
> desktop installations wanting the emoji subset of the SMP installed out of
> the box.
>

Yeah.
If someone does specific request for SMP we should go ahead with it. At the
end of days it is going to take only some kb's space in ISO's.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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