Le samedi 31 janvier 2009 à 23:42 -0800, Roozbeh Pournader a écrit : > I was trying to avoid fontconfig, but it caught me at the end. Trying > to figure out which languages in comps are supported by which font, to > be able to include them in the language group, I compared the list of > languages in F11's comps file with the orthography lists fontconfig > supports. > > To my surprise, some were missing/problematic. The list is here: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/LanguageSupportCriteria/Missing_fontconfig I'd be very careful to redefine tagalog for example. The tagalog script is definitely not latin and has a specific unicode block, iso 15924 script tag, and specific supporting fonts http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pmorrow_Tagalog_Doctrina_1593_fonts IMHO we've been conflating too many different notions (country, region, language, script) in a few short locale tags and what you see is just the system breaking appart for non-mainstream languages/scripts. > I also found quite a few problems with existing orth files in > fontconfig that I'm working on fixing: http://tinyurl.com/dbk6a8 This is something for Behdad. I hear he's cutting a new fontconfig version right now, you may want to catch him before he's done and the projects wents back to its usual 6-8 months sleepiness ;). > Since fontconfig support is critical for any language Fedora claims to > support [1], I think we should remove the language groups from comps > file if we don't have a fontconfig orthography file for it. That's not really helpful, all the different parts of language support are done by different groups with different agendas and different time scales so of course initial support is going to be incomplete. Expecting one contributor to provide all the parts in one go is illusory. What you want is to help the different contributors to a language group to: — identify other bits are missing — ping in the right place so they get added Otherwise everyone will just wait for everyone else. Some people will claim that « full » language support means a system dictionnary and thesaurus BTW, completeness is a slipery slope. > I went and > updated the language criteria page we have here, adding a fontconfig > step: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/LanguageSupportCriteria > > For the specific language cases, I went and filed upstream bugs > against fontconfig for all I could find, except for Berber, which is a > bit problematic by nature (language code used is actually for a family > of languages, glibc locales are incomplete, Latin/Tifinagh/Arabic > script division is not along country lines...). This again is because iso-639 is not well suited to identify scripts. > This is a report. I would appreciate help and feedback, especially > your thoughts about fontconfig .orth requirements for claiming > language support in Fedora. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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