Re: fonts and translations

Op 09-07-2007 om 18:01 schreef Praveen A:
> 2007/7/4, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>:
> >-concern for translations
>
> Installing fonts for all d-i supported languages. Current situation is
> completely broken for many Indian languages when installing from a
> CD/DVD, bandwidth is still an issue - and added to that the installer
> does not ask to scan other disks, so even if you have all 3 DVDs and
> the font is part of the language tasks you will get a system without
> fonts if your language does not have glyphs in dejavu and you will be
> greeted with many boxes as the installed sets your language selected
> during installation as the default locale.
>
> There could be many solutions
>
> 1) Having a mechanism to install fonts used by d-i (or at least the
> font for language selected during installation).
> 2) Get all supported fonts in the first CD/DVD so that language tasks
> will handle
> - Create language-font task and have them included in first cd
> 3) Let the language tasks handle this and have the installer ask for
> scanning the full CDs/DVD set if available. Frans has promised to look
> into this after etch release and I hope this gets added. In that case
> the user needs to have all the CDs/DVDs.
> 4) Add the missing language glyphs to dejavu. This looks a very good option.

I fear an increase on the size of the images and fear even more hitting some (memory) limits.

Assume we have a brave person who can tweak the build system, in a way that font and languages are split.

Which fonts and languages should have their one group?

Cheers
Geert Stappers

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