Having just renamed two character-rich fonts, I was planning to add them to relative xxx-support groups when I found that I really don't know what the fonts policy means there. Quoting from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy#Grouping: * Font packages in a non-legacy format (TTF or OTF): [...] 2. SHOULD also be registered in every applicable xxx-support localization group: * except groups that only require glyphs in the basic latin range. What does "the basic latin range" mean here? Does it mean all the characters in the Unicode range U+0000..U+007F, which Unicode calls "Basic Latin", and everybody just calls ASCII? Or does it mean U+0000..00FF, which according to Unicode is called "Basic Latin+Latin-1 Supplement"? Even when I take the extended definiition, looking at the existing comps file for F11, it seems that the following languages need glyphs outside that range, and still list not a single font in the xxx-support localization group. I have listed some of the extra characters they need too: * Afrikaans: U+0149 * Bosnian: U+0106, U+010C, U+017D * Catalan: U+013F, U+0140 * Esperanto: U+0108, U+011C, U+0124 * Finnish: U+0160, U+017D * French: U+0152, U+0153, U+0178 The list goes on. The source of needed glyphs come from *.orth files in fontconfig. In fontconfig's source tree, they are in the fc-lang subdirectory. I think we really need to reword that part of the policy. We need to mention how to find the glyphs needed for each language (from fontconfig? CLDR?), how to find the languages a font supports (is there a fc-list command line argument?), and redefine (and reword) "groups that only require glyphs in the basic latin range" to make sure everyone gets the same meaning from it. Roozbeh _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
