Re: [libreoffice-design] Adding Mittaphap / Droid Sans / Khmer OS Fonts to LibreOffice for Lao, Thai, and Khmer Support

On 11/28/2013 04:39 AM, Mirek M. wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> We discussed fonts not too long ago [1].
> We decided against Droid Sans, as it doesn't offer an Italic variant.
> I don't think we could offer Khmer, as the MPL, which LibreOffice is
> licensed under, is more permissive than the LGPL. I'm not sure, though.
> As for Mittaphap, I haven't heard of it. Could you describe it a bit
> more, similar to the way fonts are described at
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Wishlists/Fonts? Is it a
> good font typographically?
>
> I'm thinking we should bundle Noto Sans [2] and Noto Serif [3],
> though, as those have the goal of covering all of Unicode.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Wishlists/Fonts
> [2] https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Noto+Sans
> [3] https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Noto+Serif
>
> 2013/11/25 Robert M Campbell <robert.rcampbell@gmail.com
> <mailto:robert.rcampbell@gmail.com>>
>
>     Is it possible to include the following fonts to LibreOffice?
>
>     These fonts will help 3 SEA languages have built-in support.
>
>     Thai language
>     Droid Sans - Apache v2 license
>     https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Droid+Sans
>
>     Khmer language
>     Khmer OS - LGPL license
>     
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmer/files/Fonts%20-%20KhmerOS/KhmerOS%20Fonts%204.0-%20LGPL%20License/
>
>     Lao language
>     Mittaphap - SIL OFL license
>     http://hg.palaso.org/font-lao2/file/d0764b11848f
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=89727 (Mittaphap
>     generated font)
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=89728 (Mittaphap Book
>     generated font)
>
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Just looked at the source of Noto, and that reccomendation has some
potential - they reportedly cover Lao, Thai, and Khmer. I'll test the
font and see if I can get some langauge eperts to looks at it and see if
it meets the needs...

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