i18n November 2011

i18n@lists.stg.fedoraproject.org

4 participants
4 discussions

Needing for the ibus-pinyin/libpinyin testers
by Peng Wu 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Hi, libpinyin is a n-gram based pinyin back end for ibus-pinyin, which provides intelligent sentence-based pinyin input experience. Please help testing to make it better. The ibus-pinyin with libpinyin back end is here: http://pwu.fedorapeople.org/libpinyin-repo/ For installation guide, please see README in the above URL. If you encounters a bug or needs a missing feature, feel free to report a bug. Thanks, Peng Wu

2 3

Re: Lohit Tamil with Embolden transformation
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com 28 Nov '11

28 Nov '11

2011/11/28 Santhosh Thottingal <sthottingal(a)wikimedia.org> > Hi, > > I spent some amount of time today on learning about hinting and its > behavior, played with fontforge, compared Lohit Tamil with other Tamil > and Malayalam fonts which is having not so bad rendering in windows. > > Autohinting is not giving expected results for Indic fonts, since they > are yet to write algorithms for that- > http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/ > I checked with Hiran about the possibility of Manual Hinting. He told > me that , that requires advanced skills in typography and he never > seen it anybody done for Indic fonts except a typographers work for > Sinhala. > Yes, manual hinting is pain. It takes lots of time. We need to do it for each character and for each size i.e. 8pt, 10pt, 12pt. 4-5 bugs on liberation fonts hinting is pending from long time, so i need to dig it some time. > If we are using upstream Lohit, I understand that we cannot get good > results. Lohit family fonts are not well tested for Windows > too(Pravin, Correct me if I am wrong). > Yes, windows was never high priority for lohit, but some people use it for Windows as well though i have not heard anything regarding Lohit Tamil yet. > > By studying the behavior of other fonts, I have one solution with me, > I did an Embolden Transformation on font by 25 > units(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/Styles.html) and I see that the > hinting problem is disappeared and font is more good for reading. The > font is more dark now. > Yeah, we need Bold font for each script in Lohit upstream. see bug for Devanagari https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648350 But auto bold will not work perfectly, we need some manual intervention by font designer to make it consistent with Regular Lohit fonts. > > Srikanth, Pravin, please confirm this by the screenshots attached. let > me know if there is any improvement. > Definitely image looks better that earlier broken thing. Let me know once you applied it. Regards, Pravin Satpute

1 0

subpackaging for typing booster tables
by Pravin Satpute 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

Hi All, marathi-typing-booster total size is around 12MB something, it includes inscript and phonetic layout tables. Users normally use only one layout either inscript/phonetic. I am more familiar with phonetic so always use marathi-phonetic same way some l10n users only use marathi-inscript. Considering this i think its better to package marathi-phonetic and marathi-inscript in different rpm. It will reduce present rpm size say around 4-6mb and also save some hard-disk space. Will do same thing with other booster language tables. Lets target this for Fedora 17. Let me know if any thought on this. Regards, Pravin Satpute

1 0

Re: Lohit Assamese and Kashmiri fonts
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

2011/11/13 Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com> > Pravin, > We got confused while renaming the package names for Indic fonts when > we see two different fonts for Assamese and Bengali - lohit-as > lohit-bn > Both uses Bengali, so how the font differs? I know two three character > diffrences, but normally included in bengali font itself. Same is the > case for devanagari- lohit-hi and lohit-ks > We have stopped releasing Lohit-hindi, Lohit-Kashmiri long time back, since all of these fonts were identical. > > Could you please explain? > Yes, Bengali and Assamese language uses same script bengali, only difference is Ra character. Assamese uses U+09F0 and Bengali uses U+09B0 We can easily handle that in font but AFAIK presently only pango support lang tag. Lang tag is supported in harfbuzz-ng as well so once we will have standardize OTLE we can definitely stop shipping Lohit-Assamese and keep only Lohit Bengali. Regards, Pravin Satpute

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

i18n November 2011