On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:45:39 +0200, ZhaoQiang wrote:
Hi, all:
As we know, openSUSE leap 42.1 locale zh_* has changed the default fonts to google-noto, and make Chinese openSUSE's font render much beautiful.
As the description in wiki page: Noto is a font family designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. It is designed with the goal of achieving visual harmony (e.g., compatible heights and stroke thicknesses) across multiple languages/scripts. Commissioned by Google, the font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. Until September 2015, the fonts were under the Apache License 2.0.
I propose to port noto font family to other language to openSUSE desktop as default font. But I'm wondering, is there any country or area improper to use it?
For a bit more information: this inquiry came from a bug report for SLED12-SP2. Yes, we have already google-noto-fonts and noto-sans-cjk-fonts packages. However, noto-sans-cjk-fonts has the line Provides: locale(zh_CN;zh_SG;zh_TW;zh_HK;zh_MO) thus only Chinese locales will install this as default. For making noto-sans-cjk font to be installed automatically on Japanese and Korean locales, we'd need to put "ja" and "ko" there. However, there is one pintfall: noto sans CJK fonts are always prepended to the list of "sans" aliases, so once when this package is installed, this will be used in prior to other fonts as a system-default font. Also note that the Provides() in the spec file plays a role as "recommends" (or more accurately, other way round -- the package is recommended on the corresponding running locale). Hence, adding to Provides() shouldn't influence on the already installed system, unless you do zypper install-recommends or such. So, if anyone has a strong objection against adding ja and ko locales to Provides() of noto-sans-cjk -- so that this package will *not* be drug onto a fresh installation, please speak up. I don't guess there won't be so many people actually against it, but we'd like to have a consensus before going forward. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner@opensuse.org