[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#911705: Bug#911705: #911705 [l10n|gu] debian-installer: fonts broken for Gujarati
Holger Wansing
hwansing at mailbox.org
Mon Dec 3 04:41:17 GMT 2018
Hi,
Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-02 20:40:15)
> > > An alternative is for Gujarati to use fonts-noto. If relevant, then
> > > I'd be happy to extend the fonts-noto udeb as needed, but it needs
> > > someone who actually understand Gujarati to proof-read if using Noto is
> > > not inferior to the previous Freefont display,
> >
> > I'm pretty sure, Kartik Mistry would be able to help here (Gujarati
> > translator).
> >
> > > and it needs someone
> > > (you, Holger?) to help generate something for those Gujarati experts to
> > > proof-read.
> >
> > I looked into this:
> > Font selection is done in rootskel-gtk, and i added a variant for gu
> > like this:
> >
> > ----- snip ------
> > # Set the primary GTK font according to language
> > FONT_NAME=$DEFAULT_FONT
> > case "$language" in
> > ar|fa)
> > FONT_NAME="Nazli"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
> > ;;
> > am)
> > FONT_NAME="Abyssinica SIL"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
> > ;;
> > dz|bo)
> > FONT_NAME="Tibetan Machine Uni"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
> > ;;
> > gu)
> > FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
> > ja)
> > FONT_NAME="VL Gothic"
> > ;;
> > km)
> > FONT_NAME="Khmer OS System"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
> > ;;
> > kn)
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
> > ;;
> > ko)
> > FONT_NAME="UnDotum"
> > ;;
> > pa)
> > FONT_NAME="Lohit Punjabi"
> > ;;
> > si)
> > FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Sinhala"
> > ;;
> > ta)
> > FONT_NAME="TSCu_Paranar"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
> > ;;
> > th)
> > FONT_NAME="Loma"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
> > ;;
> > ug)
> > FONT_NAME="UKIJ Tuz"
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
> > ;;
> > zh*)
> > FONT_NAME="AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"
> > ;;
> > bn|hi|ml|mr|ne)
> > FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
> > ;;
> > esac
> > ----- snap ------
> >
> > However, this does not work, Gujarati is still unreadable.
> > (With the above changing I re-built the package and used it as localudeb
> > for building a netboot-gtk image.)
> > Is "Noto Sans Gujarati" correct, as shown above?
>
> As I mention in above quote, fonts-noto udeb need to extended to include
> Gujarati, because that udeb should only contain what is actually used -
> see bug#837926.
Ah, ok.
> You want me to add Noto Sans Gujarati to the udeb?
I would prefer to have such udeb only locally here first, since that would
only be a first attempt. Maybe you can sent it to this bug, rather than
committing it to git?
Thanks
Holger
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