Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (41 mails)

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx>]

"Jamil Ahmed" <jamil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:

>     We [www.ankurbangla.org] is working towards Bangla support in GNU/Linux.
> Currently we are working on Fedora Linux, Mandrake Linux, Gnome, KDE.

[...]

> We are interested to work on SUSE Linux too!
> Let us know the general procedure - how to start on this issue.

Thank you very much for the offer.

When we have Bangla translations, we need free fonts for Bangla as
well.

A quick check on my machine gives:

    mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list :lang=bn
    Code2000:style=Regular
    FreeSans:style=Medium
    FreeSerif:style=Medium
    mfabian@magellan:~$

i.e. this doesn't look good. I have installed Code2000 only for
testing, it is not part of the SuSE Linux distribution.  FreeSans and
FreeSerif are part of SuSE Linux, but do they really support Bangla
well enough? It has only GSUB tables for the following scripts:

mfabian@magellan:~$ ottest /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/FreeSans.ttf  |grep ScriptTag
   <ScriptTag>DFLT</ScriptTag>
   <ScriptTag>armn</ScriptTag>
   <ScriptTag>hebr</ScriptTag>
   <ScriptTag>latn</ScriptTag>
   <ScriptTag>DFLT</ScriptTag>
   <ScriptTag>latn</ScriptTag>
mfabian@magellan:~$

and none for "beng", therefore I doubt that it works well for Bengali.

Are there good, free fonts for Bangla/Bengali which we could
distribute with SuSE Linux? Can you recommend any?

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Mike FABIAN   <mfabian@xxxxxxx>   http://www.suse.de/~mfabian
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