[Debian-in-workers] Bug#375475: Is a separate udeb needed for g-i ?

[Davide Viti]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:01:15AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Well, the situation about g-i is the following: most Indic languages
> (including Bengali) are rendred with ttf-freefont currently.

right

 
> This seems OK. However, Jamil already mentioned that the rendering for
> Bengali could be better, IIRC, but more because of a font *size*
> problem than a font *shape* problem.
>

yes, we need to use a bigger fontsize at least for Bengali
  
> I bet that, in the future, we will try to replace freefont for Indic
> languages by something else (we already use a dedicated udeb for Tamil
> and Malayalam).
> 
> That "something" could either be some fonts from ttf-indic-fonts (for
> instance Mukti for Bengali script) or DejaVu as soon as DejaVu
> supports the relevant scripts (which it doesn't yet).
> 
> So, about #375475 (not 376475), I'm not sure whether the BR is
> relevant anymore. Given that D-I currently llives with Freefont, it
> would maybe be better to close it now...and open a new one when we
> *really* will need the udeb.
> 
> Davide?

that's a good question and I stumbled on it a few days ago when Frans
asked me to clean up a little bit the situation with unused udebs: I
found that bugreport which I filed a while ago.

I think this is the story: at the time the BR was filed we had
freefont ready to be used and Mukti had to be packaged, so we started
using freefont and the bugreport was just left open. I found [1] and [2]
where Jamil suggests to use Mukti... what shall we do ?

regards,
Davide

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2006/06/msg00214.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2006/06/msg00217.html


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