Localized Pangrams in the Software Center

Piotr Drąg piotrdrag at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 16:19:54 UTC 2014


2014-03-10 16:51 GMT+01:00 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> Hi all. I'm currently using "How quickly daft jumping zebras vex" as
> the sample text in the software center, which doesn't make sense for
> non-English locales like in Lohit-Punjabi.ttf
>
> I'm trying to get some data together as I don't think anyone has done
> this before, and I've put together this spreadsheet. When all the
> editing has calmed down I can move this onto the Fedora wiki if that
> would be useful.
>
> The link is here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtzJKpbiGX1zdDlMVV9EM2d4TmZZNzRkRmVNUC1nSVE&usp=sharing
>
> Help, advice and comments very welcome, thanks.
>

Hi,

Pango has quite an extensive list of localized pangrams built-in:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/tree/pango/pango-language-sample-table.h

Maybe you could use pango_language_get_sample_string() in gnome-software?

Best regards,

-- 
Piotr Drąg
http://raven.fedorapeople.org/


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