Re: Lao / Thai / Khmer Bundled Fonts

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:34:59PM +0700, Robert M Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
> wrote:
> > My hope is to not add more than a few KB per font, if at all possible.
> Font
> > language support shouldn't be 'include 9 million glyphs of various
> artistic
> > types and what-not'. We just need basic support for Thai, Khmer, and Lao,
> > so the simpler / smaller, the better. If they want some other font, they
> > should install it IMHO. Hopefully, someday, there'll be a nice all
> language
> > font that isn't too big. Until then...
> >
> > Another Q - where exactly am I patching? When I helped with the ICU
> update,
> > a archive was added to the web server and the download.list was used. In
> > that case, the only patch would be for the download.list. Or, should we
> > have a font contribution subfolder/submodule that contains each font in
> the
> > master that contains all of the embedded fonts? That way in review
> process,
> > people can look at the font and determine if it's a good idea to add and
> is
> > open and etc...
>
> Check external/more_fonts/*
>
> Regards,
> Khaled

I created these files, but still will need someone to upload the files to
the web folder... Check out
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72079

I'll commit to gerrit once they are online (so I point to the right url in
the download.lst)...