Adding georgian support in anaconda

[George Machitidze]

Thank you for information Nicolas, i will contact BPG, Djvu and i'll
test it all in development version.

On 9/27/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> Le Mar 26 septembre 2006 23:40, George Machitidze a écrit :
>
> > I see there is a freeze, but i want to test georgianized version,
> > because i know there are problems with fonts.  I have created patch
> > for anaconda for georgian schools, but i get cubes with georgian
> > support, so i removed ka.po from anaconda package. After installation
> > i've got some ugly fonts (there are no unicode fonts for georgian in
> > fedora, but maybe i saw ugly "fixed" or "unifont")
>
> On Georgian truetype support in Fedora :
>
> You can work on pushing these GPL fonts in Fedora Extras
> http://bpg.sytes.net/BPG-InfoTech/sppro/bpg/publication_view.asp?iabspos=1&vjob=vdocid,146407
>
> or find some people interested in designing/learning to design glyphs and
> work with the dejavu project (dejavu.sf.net). Unfortunately the GPL
> licensing of BGP is uncompatible with the license Bitream chose for Vera,
> so a font merge is not possible (it would require some work anyway to make
> the metrics and style compatible, though certainly less than starting from
> scratch).
>
> DejaVu recently gained and Armenian block so adding Georgian would
> certainly make sense.
>
>
> On the FC6 timeline :
>
> It's way too late to push this in FC6. Moreover I think you'll find out
> that between testing fonts and apps for georgian support, fixing problems
> and so on you really need to start now if you want to be ready by FC7 time
>
> Regards,
>
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Best Regards,
George Machitidze