[Debian-in-workers] Re: GTK frontend update and maybe time for an experimental netinst cd?

[Christian Perrier]

> To cover all the languages of India, you would need all these packages.

That may be the problem. As Attilio pointed, we're very likely to have
size constraints...and having too many font packages needed will also
complicate the build and the maintenance.

> 
> Should I make one udeb with a font from each script or 8 different udebs 
> with one font each.
> 
> Debian-installer currently uses unifont doesn't it?  Is this opentype? 
> If so would it make sense to add Indic glyphs to it?


Well, having a single font that could be used for as many languages as
possible would certainly at least help in maintenance, yes.

For that, we might need some font wizard(s)...