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From: | Ronald Lamprecht |
Subject: | Re: [Enigma-devel] Russian Localization |
Date: | Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:05:05 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) |
Hi, Daniel Heck wrote:
As a first experiment I took http://www.freelang.com/download/fonts/ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip as it has a licence that allows to modify the font. Thus I copied the cyrillic characters to dustismo_bold.ttf and added the corresponding unicode mappings.Unfortunately the license of ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip is incompatible with that of the Dustismo font. Although the former does permit modification, it explicitly disallows selling the font and therefore conflicts with the GPL used by Dustismo.
It has been an experiment - please revert the font if you think it is an urgent issue.
The original Dustismo font also had no good hinting, but one run throughThere is a GPL'ed font called ttf-thyromanes that can be found in debian, and it includes cyrillic (in addition to latin, greek, and IPA). The font has no hinting or kerning, which is a downside especially for small font sizes.Fontforge's autohinting improved the visual appearance of the font inside Enigma tremendously. So I don't see this as a major problem. Same for the missing kerning information; Dustismo, for example, only has a handful of kerning pairs and still looks quite good.@Daniel: Please have a look at the different available fonts and decide which font, or which mix we should use in future.Personally, I don't think mixing different fonts is a good idea -- the result will always look ugly and unprofessional. Thryomanes from http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/ appears to be reasonably complete font, although it has serifs which may not look too good. But maybe we could use it anyway, at least as an interim solution.
This font looks complete concerning Enigma's demands. Actually it is more complete than any other cyrillic one.
Just the characters are a little bit wider and cause some strings in different languages to be cut off slightly. The numbers are much wider and would cause some code corrections. If the font selection is aninterim solution we might think of mixing a font to avoid these trouble. Mixing a latin font with a cyrillic+greek font does not harm in general as you usually have to use different fonts in a document to display the characters from different code pages. But a homogeneous font looks much better of course. And I admit that a sans serif font looks better for the menus.
@Daniel: would you please improve the selected font by autohinting etc. and replace the current experiment.
- Ronald
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