[Debian-in-workers] Fonts Package transition status

Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 02:48:23 UTC 2011


On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org> wrote:
> As all these are actually scripts, wouldn't it make sense to use the
> iso-codes for scripts instead of those for languages? That would thus
> drop the naming inconsistency cause by devanagari.
>
> This is ISO-15924 (see iso-codes) standard. For instance:
> Devanagari="Deva"
> Kannada="Knda"
> Malayalam="Mlym"
> ...etc.

+1.
Naming font packages by script name make sense since we have multiple
languages per script.

Thanks
Santhosh



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