installing more fonts by default for better international coverage

[Qianqian Fang]

hi Jens

it is a great news for better font support on Fedora. I am curious if
it is possible to consider wqy-bitmap-fonts as the default desktop font
for Chinese locales? the bitmap glyphs were continuously improved
in the past ~3 years based on the embedded bitmaps in fonts-chinese
and the wqy-bitmapfont was widely used by simplified Chinese users.

also, WenQuanYi Project plans to release a dual-width bitmap font 
similar to GNU
Unifont, by merging about 28,000 16x16 new Chinese glyphs
with the latest release of Unifont (the Chinese glyphs in unifont is
neither complete nor optimized). The new font will cover about 46000
unicode code points and serve as a basic multi-lingual support (such
as in installer) and system font fall-back.

we just put out a new GPL Chinese font, Zen Hei, for public testing.
This is a Hei Ti style (Gothic in Japanese or Dotum in Korean)
Chinese font, servers for general purpose Chinese display and
printing. Current, it has 20194 Chinese characters (or ~32000 glyphs
if include Hangul) and covers zh_cn/sg/tw/hk/mo locales. The file
is reasonably small including about 100,000 fine-tuned embedded
bitmap glyphs. The beta version can be downloaded at

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192&package_id=242056

If these fonts are interesting to fedora i18n group, I would be glad
to help for testing and further improving.

Please let me know.

Qianqian

Jens Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the recent online I18n session at FUDConF8 there was some 
> discussion of installation defaults related to international language 
> support, and it was suggested that we should be installing more fonts 
> by default to get better desktop language display coverage out of the 
> box.
>
> So I would like to propose we start installing the following fonts by 
> default on the desktop:
>
> fonts-ISO8859-2, fonts-KOI8-R, fonts-arabic, fonts-chinese, 
> fonts-hebrew, fonts-indic, fonts-japanese, fonts-korean, 
> fonts-sinhala, and xorg-x11-fonts.
>
> I believe the mainstream commercial desktop OS's already do this.
>
> dejavu-fonts and dejavu-fonts-experimental also occur in quite a few 
> language groups, so they might be worth including too?
>
> Any comments or suggestions on this?
>
> Jens
>
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