Re: [Epiphany] Re: Font Selection

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar freedomink org>]

On Fri, 16 May 2003 09:59:05 +0000
mpeseng@tin.it wrote:

> 
> >fre 2003-05-16 klockan 06.24 skrev Sajith V.K:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> >Is there a *good* reason that epiphany has separate font
> >selection from> >the rest of GNOME ?
> >>     
> >>     gnome-i18n is not to just support local language in Graphical
> >interfaces, But it should provide other spports too, like
> >displaying web-sites in tocal language. Hence when epiphany moves
> >away from gnome standard it creates
> a
> >lot of problem to  people like us. We should discuss about the
> >issue  and formulate a common way to face it. For Malayalam(ml)
> >currently we are not planinig to support epiphany. 
> 
> Sajith, we are not moving away from GNOME standard, but rather
> trying to use GNOME default fonts.
> One of the issues was that gnome does not provide a way to set fonts
> per encoding, while mozilla and mozilla based browsers does, I
> wondered if that was going to cause i18n problems. That's why I
> asked menthos.
> 
 For indic it doesnt have ny effect, since there is no fixed standard
font encoding (most websites use adhoc fonts)
Slowly ppl are moving to UTF-8 for all indic text.

> I guess this is just a misunderstanding.
> 
  Yup.

Regards,
Karunakar

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