https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 mfabian@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ke@novell.com, gekker@novell.com ------- Comment #1 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-01-22 08:49 MST -------

From: Karl Eichwalder Subject: Tier4 SLED languages To: ICormican@novell.com Cc: "Shane Wims" , aj@suse.de Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:44:13 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

We already support all listed tier1 and tier2 languages. Tier3 does not seem to exist. Some of the tier4 languages are already supported and initial files are already available--those with [*] must be tested by Mike Fabian and the YaST team again (are fonts still available?, still in the YaST language selection menu?):

Availability of scalable In YaST language fonts in inst-sys: selection menu: SLES10 STABLE SLES10 STABLE Arabic (ar) [*] yes yes no yes Bengali (bn) [*] yes yes yes yes Catalan (ca) yes yes no yes Greek (el) yes yes yes yes Hebrew (he) [*] yes yes yes yes Hindi (hi) [*] yes yes yes yes Slovak (sk) yes yes yes yes Slovenian (sl) yes yes yes yes Tamil (ta) [*] no no no no Turkish (tr) yes yes yes yes Ukrainian (uk) yes yes yes yes Marathi (mr) yes yes [1] no yes Gujarati (gu) no no [2] no no Thai (th) no no no no Telugu (te) no no no no Malayalam (ml) no no [3] no no Zulu (zu) yes yes [4] no no Xhosa (xh) yes yes [4] no no Afrikaans (af) yes yes no no Northern Sotho (nso) yes yes [5][6] no no [1] Marathi uses Devanagari script, i.e. it uses the same script as Hindi and therefore the same fonts as Hindi. [2] FreeSans in STABLE has Gujarati, but I guess it is not usable. [3] The iso-639-1 code is "ml", not "mn" (as was written in Karl's mail), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes "mn" is Mongolian. [4] uses only ASCII, therefore no problem at all with fonts. [5] fontconfig doesn't yet know the orthography for Northern Sotho, i.e. a nso.orth file is missing in the fontconfig sources. [6] There is no locale for this language yet in glibc. I.e. as far as fonts are concerned there is no difference between SLES10 and STABLE, we need to add fonts for Tamil, Gujarati, Thai, Telugu, and Malayam: Font file size rpm package in SUSE Tamil (ta) TSCu_Paranar.ttf 68K indic-fonts Gujarati (gu) lohit_gu.ttf 148K indic-fonts Thai (th) Garuda.ttf 40K fonts-thai Malayalam (ml) RachanaMedium.ttf 1.1M indic-fonts Telugu (te) - - I.e. it is easy for Tamil, Gujarati, and Thai as we have free fonts available for these languages. For Telugu we need to go searching for a free, usable font. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ------- Comment #3 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-01-22 09:41 MST ------- Mike Fabian> For Telugu we need to go searching for a free, usable font. A Telugu font is available for download here: http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/dload.htm Adding our legal experts to CC: to check whether the license is OK. ( You can use this font freely for your personal use, and you can publish material created with this font after giving due credit to me (K.Desikachary), the creator of this font. If you like what I am doing and want to help me in my efforts, you may donate whatever you like for my projects. One such project is to publish hitherto unpublished works of great poets from original manuscripts on the web. As you know there are many great works of poetry languishing in the manuscript libraries that haven't seen the light of the day. It is very worthwhile to publish them, and web publishing is the most affordable way of doing this. Even so, it involves considerable amount of work to collect all the available manuscripts, and to critically prepare an authentic version of the manuscript. This calls for great dedication and scholarship and involves some cost. If I can raise enough money through donations, I will give it as a research grant to a qualified scholar in a Telugu Department in India and entrust him/her with the task of authentic manuscript preparation. I estimate it requires about $1000-2000 per work to accomplish this. So, any amount you donate for using my font will be used for this project. If you are willing, you may send your voluntary contributions to my address given at the end in the user manual. Now you may download the Font. ) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ------- Comment #7 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-01-22 10:38 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=114231) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=114231&action=view) bugzilla-237347-pothana-license Mail to Dr. Tirumala Krishna Desikacharyulu asking for clarification of the license of the Pothana 2000 font. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ------- Comment #9 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-01-23 03:15 MST ------- Created an attachment (id=114350) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=114350&action=view) bugzilla-237347-pothana-license-answer The Raghu fonts mentioned in comment #6 are not Dr. Desikacharyulu's font. I mentioned Dr. Desikacharyulu's font in comment #3. But he answered in the meantime and his font is under GPL as well. His answer is attached. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ------- Comment #11 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-01-23 10:23 MST ------- The fonts which are downloadable from Dr Desikacharyulu's site seem to work: mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list Pothana2000 family style file lang /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Pothana2000.ttf: Pothana2000:style=Regular:lang=te /usr/share/fonts/truetype/vemana.ttf: Pothana2000,Vemana2000:style=Regular:lang=te mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list Vemana2000 family style file lang /usr/share/fonts/truetype/vemana.ttf: Pothana2000,Vemana2000:style=Regular:lang=te mfabian@magellan:~$ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ------- Comment #13 from mfabian@novell.com 2007-01-23 17:20 MST ------- I submitted a fontconfig package to STABLE and the openSUSE build service which makes Pothana2000 the default font for Telugu for sans-serif, serif, and monospace following the recommendation of Dr. Desikacharyulu. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jan 24 01:08:58 CET 2007 - mfabian@suse.de - Bugzilla #237347: make Pothana2000 the default font for Telugu. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 snwint@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mfabian@novell.com ------- Comment #15 from snwint@novell.com 2007-01-24 06:42 MST ------- Ehm, could you give a short summary, which packages and font files need to be added? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 snwint@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|snwint@novell.com |ke@novell.com ------- Comment #17 from snwint@novell.com 2007-01-24 07:50 MST ------- Ok, added. I can't see any new yast2-trans-xx packages right now. Karl, if you have any, assign back to me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ke@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |snwint@novell.com ------- Comment #19 from ke@novell.com 2007-03-23 03:26 MST ------- I'll check stable later. SLE10 SP1 language selection seems to lack Korean (yast2-trans-ko) and Arabic (yast2-trans-ar), but at the moment I can only run the textmode interface (build 107). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237347 ------- Comment #21 from snwint@novell.com 2007-03-23 05:53 MST ------- Added Arabic & Catalan to inst-sys. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.