[sugar] Default templates with Write to complex script countries

[Martin Sevior]

Hello everyone,
               I haven't received much feedback on this so we're going
with DejaVu-Sans for Arabic.

I've setup a section on the Write wiki where people can fill in the best
font for their Language.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write#Description_.26_Goals

Look in the section under "Localization".

Please folks, fill in your font for your Language.

Thanks!

Martin

On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:20 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>              Currently Write ships with a set of templates that define
> the default fonts. Currently every single one of these templates uses
> "DejaVu Serif" as the default font family.
> 
> "DejaVu Serif" is great for Western European based Languages but has no
> glyphs for complex script languages like Arabic, Hebrew or any of the
> Indic countries.
> 
> "DejaVu Sans" has much better glyph coverage, especially for Arabic,
> however there may be even better font families for Arabic and there
> certainly are for many other languages.
> 
> OK my point about this is in order to provide the optimum experience for
> children in these countries we would like to know which family provides
> the best fonts for those countries.
> 
> If we don't get this info the next best thing is to change the templates
> to use "DejaVu Sans" to countries where we know "DejaVu Serif" doesn't
> work.
> 
> Does anyone have objections to this?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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