Re: (fonts) wikipedia challenge

[Rik van Riel <riel redhat com>]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 27 novembre 2006 à 16:58 -0500, Rik van Riel a écrit :
> > It looks like with all the fonts from FC6 and Fedora Extras, I
> > can display almost every font from http://wikipedia.org/
> >
> > Almost!  There still appear to be 4 fonts missing from Fedora
> > that are used on the wikipedia front page.  We also lack some
> > glyphs in for example the Canadian Aboriginal Syllable, as
> > used by the Inuit and the Cree (and others?).
>
> I think some of those were added to dejavu lately (the 2.12 packages in
> FE devel). At least there was some noise about canadian strange stuff on
> the irc channel, don't remember if it was merged or complete yet.

Ohhhhhh.  http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/ looks good indeed.

I simply did a yum search for "fonts" and installed every
package whose name began with fonts- ... now I have a lot
more.

It looks like improving dejavu is the way to go, indeed.

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