[Localization] font problem reported Re: [Olpc-uruguay] instalación de nuevas fuentes

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Yama Ploskonka wrote:
> apparently some of the installed fonts do not have 'ñ'
> 
> The question originally was on how to install new fonts, but actually 
> has to do with the 'ñ' issue.  I wonder how we are dealing with other 
> languages? Ç, of course all sorts of accents...

Dejavu LGC and Abyssinica SIL - shipping in the builds - have for:
U+00F1 LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
U+00D1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
U+00C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA

The trouble for other fonts is that many fonts designers are still not
taking into account the needs for extended character sets. Thankfully
there are various quality open fonts with wide Unicode coverage *and*
suitable licensing for OLPC and Sugar now available.

The current selection of fonts should be reviewed more closely according
to deployment target needs: who's taking care of that currently at OLPC
and Sugar?

New fonts can be installed by typing "cp fontname.ttf ~/.fonts/" (you
may have to create the folder first: mkdir ~/.fonts/).

See the Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems
http://unifont.org/fontguide/ to find out which ones are ideal for your
environment.

Through the work done by the upstream Fedora font SIG you may find they
are already packages for many of these open fonts and that they are just
a yum install away: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts

HTH

> Paola Bruccoleri wrote:
>> Hola..
>> es posible instalar nuevas fuentes al sistema?? 
>> supongo que sí.. pregunto porque no se bien dónde 
>> es que se instalan, y si ese directorio tiene o no permisos de escritura.
>> El tema es que hay muchas fuentes que no tienen 
>> las letras con tildes ni la ñ, por tanto, son 
>> pocas las que el alumno puede usar.
>> En caso de que se pueda, dónde obtenerlas?
>> muchas gracias
>> chauuuuuuuuuuuuu
>>
>> PD: para máquinas de uruguay, con build 656 y 767



-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org


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