[Debian-in-workers] Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

[Jamil Ahmed]

Yes, bengali[3] is perfect. :)


On 2/22/06, salahuddin pasha <salahuddin.debian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >bengali: compare [2] with [3]
>
> bengali[3] is perfect
>
> [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bengali_post.jpg
>
>
> -salahuddin66
> www.bengalinux.org
> www.debian.org
>
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:07 +0100, Davide Viti wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:07:49PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote:
> > > This evening I'll put what follows into practice (i.e. new test iso
> > > image).
> >
> > just done it: you can grab it from [1]
> >
> > > 3) It's also possible to strip the following (random) glyphs not
> > > used in the g-i (there are certainly others):
> > >
> > > Mathematical Operators      (U+2200-U+22FF)
> > > Block Elements              (U+2580-U+259F)
> > >
> > > ae_AlMohanad.ttf: u2202:u2265
> >
> > Haven't done this since I've stripped only the tarballs
> >
> > > DejaVuSans-Bold*.ttf: u2202:u2265 u2580:u259F
> >
> > actually I meant DejaVuSans*.ttf
> >
> > > Gargi_1.7.ttf: u2212 u2219
> > > Saab.ttf: u2212
> >
> > Some weird messages happened during the stripping but let's just
> > move on for now :)
> > Here's the stats for usr/share/fonts:
> >
> > ----
> > FreeSansBold.ttf: 837 glyphs   [71964 bytes]
> > FreeSansOblique.ttf: 856 glyphs   [79056 bytes]
> > FreeSans.ttf: 1211 glyphs   [93644 bytes]
> > ae_AlMohanad.ttf: 446 glyphs   [120920 bytes]
> > ja.ttf: 733 glyphs   [146236 bytes]
> > ko.ttf: 701 glyphs   [119164 bytes]
> > zh.ttf: 1814 glyphs   [1176716 bytes]
> > MuktiNarrow_11-08-2005.ttf: 197 glyphs   [84556 bytes]
> > DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: 822 glyphs   [99084 bytes]
> > DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: 823 glyphs   [105052 bytes]
> > DejaVuSans.ttf: 822 glyphs   [108252 bytes]
> > Gargi_1.7.ttf: 236 glyphs   [74116 bytes]
> > Saab.ttf: 137 glyphs   [105492 bytes]
> >
> > Font files: 13
> > Total size: 2384252 bytes
> > Unique Glyphs: 4565
> > Bytes per glyph: 522
> >
> > Generating unicode map file...
> >
> > ----
> >
> > The size of mini.iso went from 10674176 bytes to 9512960 bytes
> > I took some screenshoots using Attilio's tool and to me looks
> > like things changed the right way: I'd like to hear from native
> > speakers.
> >
> > bengali: compare [2] with [3]
> > hindi: compare [4] with [5]
> > punjabi: compare [6] with [7]
> >
> > I removed only BoldOblique. Let's say this was a minimal cleanup without
> > risks. Obviously we can strip alot more but we can't expect to gain alot more space:
> > the iso containing _only_ nazli is 8185856 bytes, so I guess we can use that as lower
> > limit...
> >
> > If you want to avoid going through the all process of stripping the fonts, you can get
> > a tarball [8] with all the stripped tarballs (it's recursive :))
> >
> > regards,
> > Davide
> >
> > PS: Christian, I noticed that hi.po does not contain the "/Choose language" in the msgstr;
> > now I understand why it is useful
> >
> > [1] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/mini_20060215.iso
> >
> > [2] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bengali_pre.jpg
> > [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bengali_post.jpg
> >
> > [4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_pre.jpg
> > [5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/hindi_post.jpg
> >
> > [6] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/punjabi_pre.jpg
> > [7] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/punjabi_post.jpg
> >
> > [8] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/gi-fonts_0.1.tgz
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