Re: Lao / Thai / Khmer Bundled Fonts

Also, I wonder if these languages should set these fonts as the default? If
so, can make that change as well...

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Robert M Campbell <
robert.rcampbell@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)...