[Bug 448289] [ro] Fonts in distribution contains incorrect glyphs for Romanian language

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Summary: [ro] Fonts in distribution contains incorrect glyphs for Romanian language


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448289


nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |INSUFFICIENT_DATA




------- Additional Comments From nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net  2008-05-29 04:25 EST -------
Fedora is creating some fonts like liberation and lohit, but certainly not
creating every single font we ship, and the plain truth is that language
communities that make the effort to organise themselves and submit fixes to the
fonts they're interested in upstream get better support that those that file
bugs at the wrong level and expect someone else to do the work. That's why our
script coverage is very uneven - communities that organize themselves to work on
the fonts they need get first-class multi-font support (Greeks), and sometimes
minority scripts (Armenian) are better supported than scripts used in more
populous/more rich countries. Armenians worked on the fonts they needed themselves.

@fedora we mostly focus on helping language communities help themselves, by
packaging the right font tools and only shipping fonts that can be modified by
localization groups if they need to. But we certainly do not have a font design
service today.

Răzvan: IIRC latarcyrheb is provided by kbd but it should be installed on every
system and a simple rpm query (rpm -q --whatprovides) will tell you where it's
comming from. You've been given all the info needed to identify fonts needing
work. This "distribution" bug therefore serves no purpose and won't get you any
further.

"And, as a final user, I have no time/willingness to "dig" - subscribe to font
mailing lists, learn technicalities about fonts, etc."

That's not free and open software creation works.



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