<div>On 2/28/07, Parag N(पराग़) <<a href="mailto:panemade@gmail.com">panemade@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, On 2/28/07, Jens Petersen <<a href="mailto:petersen@redhat.com">petersen@redhat.com</a>> wrote: > I am currently reviewing a Tibetan font for inclusion in Fedora. > It is called Tibetan Machine Uni, and we have had a lengthy > polite discussion on the naming of the package both in and out > of bugzilla, also with the upstream maintainer. (The project is hosted > on SourceForge and GPL fwiw). The package was submitted as > tibetan-machine-uni-fonts, so I suggested fonts-tibetan. However since > the font is also good for Bhutanese, the submitter and the maintainer > think fonts-tibetan-dzongkha (bhutanese) would be more appropriate. +1. I agree with fonts-tibetan-dzongkha-bhutanese package name. > > It occurred to me that we really need some guideline about naming of > fonts packages. Most of our international fonts follow the naming > scheme "fonts-*" where "*" is the generally the English name of the > language, which makes the package pretty easy to find. And the > remainder are mostly suffixed with "-fonts". Currently in F7T2 there are: > > fonts-ISO8859-2 fonts-KOI8-R fonts-arabic fonts-bengali fonts-chinese > fonts-gujarati fonts-hebrew fonts-hindi fonts-japanese fonts-kannada > fonts-korean fonts-malayalam fonts-oriya fonts-punjabi fonts-sinhala > fonts-tamil fonts-telugu</blockquote><div> Why not fonts-<script_name> instead of fonts-<language_name>. For example, fonts-hindi is also the font used for marathi, nepali, and sanskrit. So just use fonts-devnagri. </div> </div>