About Vera fonts (was: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Dec 10 19:08:55 UTC 2003


Its not a solution if it requires using Fontconfig to remap certain
ranges.  OOo doesn't use fontconfig.

Now I don't know if thats the solution or not, it probably isn't.  I'd
love to know what it is though.

dan

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:58, Julien Olivier wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:20, Dan Williams wrote:
> > In OOo 1.1.0-6 and higher at least, OOo uses the Luxi fonts where
> > possible, and Nimbus Roman No 9 L for Serif.  The Bitstream Vera fonts
> > do not have the required coverage for at least Eastern European locales,
> > so we can't use them as the default UI font, even though they look good
> > there.
> > 
> 
> According to Owen, there could be a solution to solve the coverage
> problem. Wouldn't it be worth trying to solve it if it's the case ?





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