= Proposed Self Contained: New Default Console Font = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewDefaultConsoleFont Change owner(s): Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx>, Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> A new console font, eurlatgr, was recently added to kbd and it should be better default console font for European based languages written in Latin or Greek script. eurlatgr is based on latarcyrheb-sun16 so the typeface does not change. == Detailed Description == eurlatgr would bring these changes over the current default latarcyrheb-sun16: * full compatibility with latarcyrheb-sun16 for Latin script and special characters * Arabic/Cyrillic/Hebrew are not supported at all by eurlatgr so those users should still stay with latarcyrheb-sun16 * non-European languages written in Latin script (like Vietnamese) are not fully supported but perhaps a bit more so than with latarcyrheb-sun16 * the only non-Arabic/Cyrillic/Hebrew characters not present in eurlatgr but in latarcyrheb-sun16 are U+F800 and U+F804 which are not valid Unicode characters so the use case for them is unclear, especially today. These could be re-added if there's a real need for them but if not, dropping them is ok * full support for all European languages written in Latin script * full support for Greek * full support for a huge list of characters and character sets (see Documentation below) * support for a wide range of accented Latin characters not present in latarcyrheb-sun16 to allow people to write their names correctly * support for glyphs used by some systemd(1) utilities * support for glyphs used by man(1) (see e.g. the bottom of unicode(7) how some characters are not displayed properly under latarcyrheb-sun16) * support for glyphs that have become popular recently, like the smiley (☺) and arrows (e.g. →) == Scope == * Adjust langtable rules to prefer eurlatgr instead of latarcyrheb-sun16 for the languages supported by eurlatgr. Review additional related tools (anaconda, dracut, systemd) to see whether any defaults need to be changed. * Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change) _______________________________________________ devel-announce mailing list devel-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
