fonts October 2010

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abattis-cantarell-fonts looking for review
by Luya Tshimbalanga 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello team, Design team have recently chosen Cantarell for body text. I have packaged Cantarell fonts for Fedora and am looking for review [1]. I noticed Dave Crossland is part of SIG Fonts so, if interested, he can be co-maintainer of abattis-cantarell-fonts once it passed the review. Ref: - ----- [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623868 - -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya(a)fedoraproject.org W: http://www.thefinalzone.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMZKNPAAoJEGZ+gIukWeEeY2YH+gOYRLrNlB9O4GcRStXDUQCF YGM5wyfJivrmysWUJ+Krxc7cXo5lRWGnQ6M1nOxKr1rfhjMyyHxCThUKIAOVkTWu mxGyu1r39RvgGk+9kUYZe3zDH0FbeXTpkrnUGEhuRpe4ut9xgM97I7qvAZJ/u4sA +sPK5smgTAtKNgh8fp5EaKEvd9ilDZR5QWOOTNG0wE5lKmKV3xnYhrgiYoASwk/8 bRoMHO74t1RNnOIPopF0fZ/jqvLDQ8ciZ2oE/Iw5r9ImLYwDwfORCutBIq4JPPgT gg6+fOwsNUJrykbytovOgCr9TezF1goqgtAU9b1223AmcDmAN6LpUGda5Hgy8LE= =EOFF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Unicode-friendly TTF fonts in Fedora and/or EPEL?
by Steve White 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

Hi Robert, I don't have a recommendation for you, but I do have some questions, and a remark. I am very curious as to which characters shared by CJK would be drawn differently in text of the different languages. Where could we read about this? What problems specifically have you run into? There is of course a lot of information on related topics in Ch 12 of the Unicode Standard http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch12.pdf Is some part of this relevant to your issues? One remark: There are OpenType (or TrueType) substitution tables whose express purpose is to handle compatability issues of East Asian languages, and others to handle language-specific variants. This has nothing to do with Unicode as such, but I'm guessing it has something to do with your concerns. Cheers!

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Unicode-friendly TTF fonts in Fedora and/or EPEL?
by Robert Scheck 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

Good evening, I'm trying to migrate a software of my employer from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. The software itself has some kind of UTF-8 support, but we didn't write the the code ourself, which seems me to bring where I am now (bah!). I'm looking for a Unicode-friendly TTF font in Fedora and/or EPEL. At the moment, we are using "Sazanami Mincho", but users from Japan told us, that some of the characters would be represented wrong for Japanese, but correct for Chinese and/or Taiwanese. In the end, we need replacements for something like Helvetica (sans-serif), Times Roman (serif) and Courier (fixed) - with as many characters supported as possible. It needs to be a *.ttf file, because we have to use ttf2afm(1) for getting the font into our software. Beside of that, that font(s) should somehow cover (if possible?) the above mentioned issue with the same character in JP/CN/TW but with a slightly different representation depending on the country. Is there a font which is covering that? Is there maybe one (!) font which is somehow acceptable for all countries, meaning Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese people - without any claims by users that some characters are not perfect? "Sazanami Mincho" has many characters (from what we got), but we've claiming users :( If it's somehow relevant, because I don't understand JP/CN/TW, the software is a Enterprise Resource Planning system, that means it's used at business, at organisations etc. If JP/CN/TW has any characters which are not relevant to business, the font hasn't necessarily to support them then... ;-) Do you have any suggestions or recommendations for a font that could fit our needs? Hope to hear something else than "design your own font" by you. Maybe we (Fedora) have native speakers for JP/CN/TW, who could help here? Greetings, Robert

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Re: Unicode-friendly TTF fonts in Fedora and/or EPEL?
by Akira TAGOH 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

>>>>> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:29:53 -0400, >>>>> "JS" == John Stracke <francis(a)thibault.org> wrote: JS> But Unicode has separate character ranges for Chinese, JS> Japanese, and Korean now. Can't you use a font that has JS> distinct glyphs for those characters? Are you talking about the variation selector or something else? the common characters for CJK should be still in the CJK Unified Ideographs blocks though. -- Akira TAGOH

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[Fwd: Orphaning my packages]
by Nicolas Mailhot 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

-------- Message transféré -------- De: Roozbeh Pournader Reply-to: Development discussions related to Fedora Sujet: Orphaning my packages Hi all, I've been AWOL for quite a while now. Just to make sure I'm not making the life of anyone harder, I am officially orphaning my packages. Some of them already have someone who has kindly taken over the package for quite a while now, while some others would need new owners. Here is the list: fonttools pyfribidi python-enchant sil-doulos-fonts sil-gentium-fonts translate-toolkit (dwayne has practically taken over) Best, Roozbeh

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by francis+fedora+fonts＠thibault.org 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

On 10/21/2010 06:50 AM, Robert Scheck wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, francis+fedora+fonts(a)thibault.org wrote: >> But Unicode has separate character ranges for Chinese, Japanese, and >> Korean now. Can't you use a font that has distinct glyphs for those >> characters? > which font(s) in Fedora could provide that or would satisfy that? I wouldn't know. I was just objecting to the notion that such a font was impossible. If it exists in Fedora, here's one way you could find it: * Find a character that's supposed to be different in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. * Find the Unicode codepoints that represent that character in the three languages. * Write HTML entities for those codepoints. * Write a script that loops over all the fonts you have, and, for each font Fred, emits: <li>Fred: <font face="Fred">$HTMLENTITIES</font></li> * Take the resulting HTML, view it in your Web browser, and start looking for a line where the three characters are different. > Again, > whatever font or fonts we use, the characters/symbols in CN/JP/TW/KR Note that Unicode doesn't distinguish between mainland China and Taiwan. -- /=========================================================\ | John Stracke | http://www.thibault.org | | François Thibault |----------------------------------| | East Kingdom | When tempted to fight fire with | | francis(a)thibault.org | fire, remember that fire | | | departments generally use water. | \=========================================================/

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Re: Gnu FreeFont package information
by Akira TAGOH 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

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[Fwd: [DejaVu-fonts] Unicode Viewer released]
by Nicolas Mailhot 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

In case someone on the lists finds this interesting and wants to package it Fedora-side -------- Message transféré -------- De: Harald Vajkonny Dear friends, we are pleased to announce that the first version of "Unicode Viewer" is now available for download. Unicode Viewer is a tool for browsing Unicode tables to obtain detailed information about every glyph. It provides a GUI with multiple functions for navigating through the data and a Lua scripting interface to create new functions. It also displays each glyph's DUCET-information and allows sorting according to an order specified in an allkeys.txt-File. Sort order tailoring is not yet implemented but about to come. We also try to implement an interface to access fontforge. Any ideas for functions and features are strongly welcome. It runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows machines. Please visitit the project's page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ucviewer/ For the impatient, you may also (on Linux): svn co https://ucviewer.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ucviewer ucviewer qmake make ./UnicodeViewer sudo make install If you want to leave a comment about your experience with this program or want to become a developer, please subscribe to the project's mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ucviewer-general Best regards, Harald Vajkonny (I hope, I did not break any rules by posting this announcement here) -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Gnu FreeFont package information
by Steve White 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Hi, The information for the Fedora package gnu-free-font is badly out of date. http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/beta/6/SRPMS/repoview/gnu-free-f… I don't know how to fix this, so I'm writing to the list. Please let me know who I should contact, if the list isn't the right place! The website is not http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ it is http://www.gnu.org/freefont/ The license is not GPLv2+ with exceptions It ought to be GPLv3+ with special font exception The latest version is 2010-09-19 Read more about it at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Cheers!

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can we use -ve RBearing for glyph
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi All, I am facing strange problem, in Lohit Project Kannada, Telugu script font has many glyphs with -ve RBearing, typesetter used this to satisfy script requirement, i.e when two glyphs come together they should looks perfectly adjust. But in Gnome Desktop in some Labels and Menus Rbearing -ve part is getting cut (not getting displayed) http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/kn_IN-Bug_GnomePanelProblem.png see third word with yellow mark Can someone guide me, should we fix it in fonts or in rendering engine or somewhere else? redoing type setting is really big task Thanks, Pravin S

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