Re: Fonts for distribution

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 25/02/2006, at 8:06 AM, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> ØÙØ ÚÙØØØÙØÙØ 2006-02-22 ØØØØ 18:21 +0330Ø Roozbeh  
> Pournader ÙÙØØ:
>
> > Gentium, Doulos, and Charis are already available in Fedora, in  
> > packages
> > named "gentium-fonts", "doulos-fonts", and "charis-fonts". All  
> > three are
> > currently available for Fedora Core 5 test versions, while at the
> > present moment only gentium-fonts is available for Fedora Core 4  
> > (Charis
> > and Doulos will be available in a few days).
> >
> > For example, to install the Gentium on Fedora, one can simply type:
> > # yum install gentium-fonts
>
> Well, charis-fonts and doulos-fonts are now also available for Fedora
> Core 4:
> # yum install charis-fonts doulos-fonts

So, could we release them (plus Gentium) with Gnome? Do we distribute  
any true Unicode fonts with Gnome yet?

This is an accessibility issue as well as a i18n issue: it's more  
difficult for users to access localizations if they have to hunt  
around for suitable fonts. I remember getting an email from a lady  
who had no idea where to find fonts for Vietnamese, and actually  
thought that meant she couldn't use her own language on her computer.  
She had been stuck that way for _years_. :(

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
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