Bug 117879
| Summary: | add Tamil to FC2 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Hariraam Aathreya <rhariram> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | CC: | notting |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-03-02 20:57:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Hariraam Aathreya
2004-03-09 16:25:47 UTC
Assigning to font reviewer. Would it be possible to answer the questions in https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2003-August/msg00154.html for the Tamil fonts that you think should be included? Note this is blocking on answers to these questions. Nothing further will be done until I get a detailed proposal. Answers to questions at: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2003-August/msg00154.html Question: * What set of fonts should be included, each font really should be justified as serving a different purpose. Answer: Three fonts need to be included. Two as listed in the original report and a Tamil console font from : http://zha.sourceforge.net/tmp/consoleTamilUni.bdf (author: N. Sivaraj, sivaraj AT tamil DOT net ) Justification for inclusion of Fonts: 1. VagaiUni : Tamil font which meets the Unicode standard 2. TSCu_Paranar : This font includes both Unicode & TSCII character encoding (TSCII is a legacy standard before Unicode was used) This font is useful since the Tamil computing community is still in the process of transitioning from TSCII to Unicode. Using this font one could read both TSCII & Unicode encoded data. 3. consoleTamilUni.bdf : A Tamil Console font. ---------------------- Question: * For each font, a summary of: - What is the license of the fonts? - Who drew the glyphs? If the font contains Roman characters as well, where did they come from? - Where did the design of the glyphs come from? (In some countries, font designs are patentable or otherwise protected, so a exact copy of an existing commerical font is not a good idea.) - Where did the name come from? (Font names are trademarkable) Answer: 1. VaigaiUni : - GPL license - Glyphs drawn by the author. Roman chars too drawn by author - Glyph design too by author - Named by the author based on a river name concatenated with 'Uni' (to signify Unicode encoding) 2. TSCu_Paranar - GPL license - Glyphs drawn by the author. Roman chars too drawn by author - Glyph design too by author - Named by the author signifying a TSCII+Unicode encoding (TSCu) and name of Tamil saint (Paranar) 3. consoleTamilUni - GPL license - Glyphs drawn by the author. Roman chars too drawn by author - Glyph design too by author - Named by the author to signify that its a Unicode based console font for Tamil. Question: * Some indication of how useful the bugs are with the software we ship currently. Answer: Question unclear to me. Till date Tamil has not been shipped with RedHat/Fedora. This was done for FC-3. |