Bug 82743

Summary:	Request for the inclusion of Bengali OpenType fonts in the Distro
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	otaylor, rvokal
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/
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Description Sayamindu Dasgupta 2003-01-25 17:31:49 UTC

We have four font sets (GPL'ed) at www.nongnu.org/freebangfont. We have a RPM
ready for Red Hat 8.0 at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/FreeBanglaFont.pkg/0.2-1/freebanglafont-0.2-1.noarch.rpm
As far as we know, these are the only Free (as in speech) OpenType fonts for
Bengali (bn). We are already very actively into GUI translation, and, we can do
a lot of things in Bengali now (like Bengali mail, Bengali chat, and things like
that). So, if the fonts are there with the distro, it will be even more easier
for the general people to benefit from our work.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-01-27 17:35:44 UTC

Cc'ing the font guru.

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2003-01-27 19:37:50 UTC

I think it makes a lot of sense to add these fonts, eventually.
Adding them at the current point in the beta cycle isn't really
possible, so it's not going to happen in the very short term
future.

Comment 3 Sayamindu Dasgupta 2003-05-10 18:26:36 UTC

So - now that RH 9.0 is released, how about moving further with this? The RPMS
have been considerably improved (along with a new font).
-thanks-
Sayamindu

Comment 4 Jamil Ahmed 2003-08-14 04:59:23 UTC

Here is the updated package - which works with RH linux 9
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/FreeBanglaFont.pkg/0.
5-1/freebanglafont-0.5-1.noarch.rpm

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont/FreeBanglaFont.pkg/0.
5-1/freebanglafont-0.5-1.src.rpm

Thanks,
`Jamil

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2005-03-02 18:43:00 UTC

There are bengali fonts in FC3.