On 8/22/07, Jens Petersen <petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the recent online I18n session at FUDConF8 there was some discussion > of installation defaults related to international language support, and > it was suggested that we should be installing more fonts by default to > get better desktop language display coverage out of the box. Might be a good idea. Given that spinning out Fedora is now relatively easier, those with a predefined font content set might be well placed to yum remove in %post perhaps. The only thing I see is that the installation payload increases - given the trade off with aesthetics that might not be too bad. Any pointers as to the payload quantum increase ? > So I would like to propose we start installing the following fonts by > default on the desktop: > > fonts-ISO8859-2, fonts-KOI8-R, fonts-arabic, fonts-chinese, > fonts-hebrew, fonts-indic, fonts-japanese, fonts-korean, fonts-sinhala, > and xorg-x11-fonts. Nice. > I believe the mainstream commercial desktop OS's already do this. Some "other" Linux OSs do this too :) > dejavu-fonts and dejavu-fonts-experimental also occur in quite a few > language groups, so they might be worth including too? That's an overkill right ? :Sankarshan -- >From Untruth, lead me to the Truth, >From Darkness, Lead me towards the Light, >From Death, Lead me to Life Eternal -- Fedora-i18n-list mailing list Fedora-i18n-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-i18n-list
