[Debian-in-workers] Bengali in new Debian Installer

[Christian Perrier]

> indic-font package is already there for Debian. Will not that do?
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/ttf-indic-fonts


That's not enough. The challenge will be fitting the needed fonts in
the graphical installer where size constraints and memory footprint
will be an important concern.

We will have the choice of either load dedicated fonts for each
language...with the drawback that it can only be done when the
installer has access to the install media itself, that is quite late
in the install process....or use one big font with barely all needed
glyphs, which coul dbe fitted on the installer initrd.

See recent discussions on debian-boot.....

We haven't reached that point anyway now. The installe rteam is still
trying to setup a daily build of the graphical installer, currently
only with Latin fonts, so that more people can start hacking on it for
various purposes...including fonts handling.