Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Document Liberation Project flyer for translations

Mike Saunders schreef op 21.02.2023 08:48:
> Hi Cristian, everyone,
>
> On 20.02.23 22:39, Cristian Secară wrote:
> > Has anyone thought about i18n issues at the time of choosing this font 
> > ? A quick look at the embedded character set shows that this font 
> > lacks support for Czech, Polish, Hungarian and Romanian alphabets 
> > (this for Latin based scripts); it also lacks support for Greek, it 
> > also lacks support for Cyrillic. Not a word about Asian or Arabic 
> > scripts.
>
> The choice of Vegur as the branding font for LibreOffice goes back
> many years, back to the start (2010) I believe. You make a good point,
> if it's missing many characters for many languages, and we should fix
> that.
>
> > Why not choose from SIL fonts ? Their i18n support is comprehensive 
> > (and font quality is awesome).
>
> Thanks for the suggestion -- do you have a specific font in mind?

Why not choose Liberation Sans like in the Guides?

> > Or, perhaps the sister project considers that only 'Western' languages 
> > "... have digital content created years ago and stored in old, 
> > outdated and proprietary document formats." ?
>
> Not at all, and clearly Vegur is lacking. Let's find a font that works
> is many more scripts, and adapt the flyers accordingly...
>
> Cheers,
> Mike

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