Re: [Libreoffice] [patch] (draft) remove Andale Sans UI from the LO default font lists

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Christian Lohmaier <
lohmaier+libreoffice@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Samphan, *,
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Samphan Raruenrom <samphan@osdev.co.th>
> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Since Andale Sans UI is only available for PC that have installed
> StarOffice
> > 7 (or newer), I suggest we remove the font from LO default font fallback
> > lists because not many people will have the font installed anyway.
>
> You forgot the discussion from February already?

Sorry. My English is not very good so I may not understand your message
fully.


> Please explain the "why"
>
> I definitely say "-1" to removing Andale Sans UI unless you refer to
> the thread in earyl February and explain why you still think it is a
> good thing to do.

From Petr's reply, I agree that we should retaion Andale Sans UI for
compatibility with StarOffice 7 users.



> > 2) for UI_SANS, if Andale Sans UI is the first-priority font, use Tahoma
> > instead because it has better glyph coverage than Arial Unicode MS
>
> This is a bogus argument, as the there is a font-list especially for
> the purpose of finding a font that covers the glyph-area.
> And I kind of doubt that Arial Unicode has less glyphs than Tahoma. Do
> you have an example?

Sorry. I've just found after I sent the email that Arial Unicode MS have
very good glyph coverage.


> > 3) for th locale, the Thai community are coming with better default font
> > lists that work cross-platform
>
> This is fine with me.

I'll send a patch for the th locale after the Thai community reach a
conclusion on this.


> But again:
>
> > Please take a look and make comments.
>
> You had those comments in February already. And now you come with the
> very same proposal of removing Andale Sans UI without even referring
> to the previous thread.

Sorry again for that. I misunderstand the thread and thought that you'd like
to see the patch.
I'll read your Feb comments again.


> ciao
> Christian



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