installing more fonts by default for better international coverage

Linus Walleij triad at df.lth.se
Fri Aug 24 07:20:38 UTC 2007


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Jens Petersen wrote:

> In the recent online I18n session at FUDConF8 there was some discussion of 
> installation defaults related to international language support, and it was 
> suggested that we should be installing more fonts by default to get better 
> desktop language display coverage out of the box.

Do it. I've stopped counting the times I've opened something like 
wikipedia and seen broken glyphs in the cross-wikilinks to arabic, hindi 
or whatever. It should *just work*. I even consider it a bug...

Linus




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