[Pkg-fonts-devel] Re: Bug#358003: ITP: ttf-dzongkha -- TrueType fonts for Dzongkha language

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Thu Mar 23 08:58:25 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:08:02AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Drew Parsons (dparsons at debian.org):

>>>  This package includes fonts that are suitable for the display of
>>>  the Dzongkha language.

>> May I suggest for rare languages like this that you also mention in
>> the description where the language comes from? (Bhutan in this
>> case, isn't it?)

> Well, I have one very little argument against doing so: why do it
> for Dzongkha and why not do it for, say, French...:-)

Because "French" is the adjective in English (the language the package
description is written in) for "from France". The same, I would not
expect it to be done if the language were called "Bhutanese".

-- 
Lionel



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