#10812 NORM 11.2.0-: Revist fonts included with OLPC XO builds

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#10812: Revist fonts included with OLPC XO builds
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           Reporter:  greenfeld        |       Owner:  cjb                              
               Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  11.2.0-M4                        
          Component:  x window system  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  add to build     |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:                   |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:                   |  
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Changes (by martin.langhoff):

  * next_action:  diagnose => add to build


Comment:

 Yes - please, switch from dejavu-lgc to full dejavu.

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
 Date: Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:38 PM
 Subject: dejavu-* vs dejavu-lgc-*
 To: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>


 In the process of preparing a custom 10.1.3 img for Armenia, I
 realized that we don't have wide coverage of unicode glyphs in our
 default img; and that you only need ~1MB extra in fonts to have it.

 We currently install the DejaVu "LGC" fonts, which are a cut-down
 version of the DejaVu fonts -- they save some space by only including
 Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. The LGC set takes 7.3 MB installed.

 The full set takes 8.3 MB installed.

 With the full set, I can display webpages in Armenian, Chinese (unsure
 which) and Taiwanese in my very limited testing -- which had given me
 the "missing unicode glyph" glyph.

 I propose the DejaVu LGC fontset -- as it stands today -- is not worth
 our time. Perhaps someone was carving it out deeper/better?

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