Bug 474045
| Summary: | new upstream version 4.28; use cyrillic non-script characters | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Lev Shamardin <shamardin> | ||||
| Component: | terminus-font | Assignee: | Hans Ulrich Niedermann <rhbugs> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | high | ||||||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | fonts-bugs, john.brown009, rhbugs | ||||
| 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: | 2008-12-24 18:42:00 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Lev Shamardin
2008-12-01 20:44:05 UTC
This bug has been triaged. I'll build an update to 4.28 shortly. About those patches... As someone who is proud of being able to decipher "Днепр" written on the side of a ship when given 5 minutes to figure out the letters, I cannot pass any judgement on the suitability of any patches affecting cyrillic letters. As far as I know, cyrillic letters are used in at least Russia, Bulgaria, and Serbia. I am guessing there might be slight differences in the respective languages' letters, which those patches might address. So... those patches might make the letters look worse for non-Russians while improving them for Russians, and then the non-Russians will file a bug... The home page says terminus-font-4.28-ge1.diff.gz - apply when creating an international package which appears to make sense to me to include in the Fedora package, however I'd like a little more information on the ge1 and ij1 patches. I can provide some justification why I ask for these patches. These patches change the shape of the characters which are (in unicode notation) cyrillic small letter ve, cyrillic small letter de, cyrillic small letter ghe and cyrillic small letter i. The default shape of these letters in terminus font is more common for a written script shape, or for italic shape of some fonts. All other cyrillic letter shapes of this font are more common for a printed script shapes. I can provide you with examples of these letters in other printed and scripted fonts. I attach a file which has samples of these four letters rendered with different fonts. If you compare the shapes you can conclude that the shape of these letters without patches corresponds more to an italic or script font, but not for a regular face. That is why I'm asking to apply these patches by default. Created attachment 326038 [details]
sample letters de, ve, ghe, i in different fonts
Now that I can actually see it, this makes a lot of sense for a general use font. Thanks a lot for this insightful explanation. New packages are being built right now. terminus-font-4.28-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/terminus-font-4.28-1.fc9 terminus-font-4.28-1.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/terminus-font-4.28-1.fc10 terminus-font-4.28-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update terminus-font'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-10928 terminus-font-4.28-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update terminus-font'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-10945 terminus-font-4.28-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. terminus-font-4.28-1.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |