[Debian-in-workers] Re: Punjabi fonts insallation

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Sun, 22 May 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:

> What we need to determine (and we will need you for that), is what
> font package is/are required to properly support Punjabi.
>

That would be ttf-punjabi-fonts

> I have a few font packages installed on my own system and IIRC, Hindi
> displays well. This should probably be discussed in the
> debian-in-workers mailing list, which I CC to this answer. You should
> probably subscribe to this list (may someone remind the subscription
> method?).

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-in-workers

> It is currently very low traffic....but if interest
> increases, through the installer work, for the support of languages of
> India, the list may revive.
>
>>
>> 3> there are many Punjab Fonts are insalled, but
>> Default should be "Lohit", which is best in my
>> thinking, as they are able to print
>>

Currently ttf-punjabi-fonts contains Saab and Lohit Punjabi.  Saab is 
given higher priority.  We can change that but only after Sarge is 
released.  If you know other Punjabi fonts which are free software that 
should be added to this package, please inform the maintainer Soumyadip 
Modak (soumyadip@softhome.net) or myself.

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