Bug 747280

Summary:	why are the lohit* fonts installed by default ?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mohammed Arafa <bugzilla>
Component:	lohit-fonts	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	aalam, extras-orphan, fonts-bugs, i18n-bugs, petersen, pnemade, psatpute
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Description Mohammed Arafa 2011-10-19 10:55:27 UTC

Description of problem:
i did a fresh install of f15 and found a whole bunch of lohit* fonts installed. to get rid of them i had to do a yum erase and it showed the lohit fonts were not a dependency to any other program

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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.do a fresh install
2.rpm -qa | grep lohit
3.
  
Actual results:
bunch of lohit fonts

Expected results:
no lohit fonts found

Additional info:

Comment 1 Pravin Satpute 2011-10-19 11:18:13 UTC

Instead of just installing Latin script fonts, it can be single font. 
We install at least one font for each script, so if any user find any content on web it should render properly.

Lohit fonts cover 9 Indian scripts.

reopen if any problem

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2011-10-21 00:46:43 UTC

The Lohit fonts are really quite small so including them by
default is not much of a problem - I think other major OS platforms
also do this.

Mohammed, I guess you want to have a font with Arabic support
installed by default?  Well it is the same for people in India. :)

Comment 3 Pravin Satpute 2011-10-21 06:17:03 UTC

Thanks jens for clarifying it more :)

Aman was suggesting wiki page for this kind of queries, what do you say?

Comment 4 Mohammed Arafa 2011-10-21 11:39:41 UTC

@jens - arabic is not part of the requirement. in fact, i do not remember mentioning it.

@pravin since you mention that 1 font / script needs to be installed .. i will need to double check arabic is installed by default

thanks

Comment 5 A S Alam 2011-10-21 16:33:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> @jens - arabic is not part of the requirement. in fact, i do not remember
> mentioning it.
> 
> @pravin since you mention that 1 font / script needs to be installed .. i will
> need to double check arabic is installed by default
> 
dejavu-sans-fonts supports arabic, so that is why getting ar.wikipedia.org works for me.

thanks