fonts-bengali added to Fedora Core
Owen Taylor
otaylor at redhat.com
Fri Jan 23 16:59:35 UTC 2004
I've now created a fonts-bengali-0.1.noarch.rpm for Fedora Core 2:
http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/tmp/fonts-bengali/
I'm not sure that we'll get it squeezed into Test 1, but
it will definitely be there for Test 2. Please give the
package a look and let me know if you find any problems.
Comments:
* Currently it packages only MuktiNarrow, since I was told
that was the most desirable font to include. In terms
of including other fonts, the guidelines would be as
said earlier "each font should be justified as serving
a different purpose".
* Since it likely will contain other fonts in the future,
I gave it a version of '0.1' rather than matching the
upstream '0.94' for MuktiNarrow. I used a low 0.1 to
provide for future flexibility.
* I've named it 'fonts-bengali' to correspond to the convention
we are now following; see fonts-arabic, fonts-hebrew.
* I went with 'bengali' rather than 'bangla' since bengali
is the most commonly used English name for the language
and script, and the package names are in English.
Examples of the use of 'bengali'
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BNG
http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/bengalot/default.htm
I know some native users prefer 'Bangla', but I think
using 'bengali' in the package name will keep confusion
to a minimum.
Sorry for the delay in getting to this, and thanks to Jamil
for his persistance in bugging me about it.
Owen
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