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Subject:    Re: [i18n-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Plan for dealing with
From:       Xue Wei <Wei.Xue () Sun ! COM>
Date:       2008-12-02 16:41:35
Message-ID: 4935653F.8030309 () sun ! com
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Hi Bonghwan,

Thanks for your suggestion!

> But, I am anxious to get rid of that korean fonts ( daewoo ). This is 
> too dirty.
> These fonts have made all of our applications looked dirty.
>
> And I'd like to recommend you to include this opesourced fonts instead.
> All of korean linux distros are using these fonts as default fonts today.
>
> http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/ ; fonts site.
> core fonts : http://kldp.net/frs/?group_id=300&release_id=2607
> extra fonts : http://kldp.net/frs/?group_id=300&release_id=2608
>   
I will evaluate and request OSR review for them to see if we can 
integrate them.

Thanks!

Regards,
William

> Bonghwan Kim/
>
> Alan Coopersmith ? ?:
>   
>> One of the problems I've been needing to solve is how to deal with
>> multiple IPS packages installing fonts, given the X server requirement
>> to have mkfontdir create a fonts.dir file listing all font files in
>> a given directory.
>>
>> In Solaris SVR4 packages, we deal with this by using class action
>> scripts & postinstall/remove scripts to run mkfontdir in each
>> directory that the package installs fonts in - this allows splitting
>> each font directory across multiple packages.
>>
>> For 2008.05, we dealt with this by not splitting fonts across packages,
>> delivering one gigantic FSWxorg-fonts package that contained 45mb of
>> fonts.   This is too much for the LiveCD, so we have to split it up.
>>
>> Without scripting in IPS, the options seem to be:
>>  a) define a font action in IPS
>>  b) create a SMF service that somehow knows where the font dirs are
>>     and runs mkfontdir in them
>>  c) create new subdirectories with fonts in that we can ship the
>>     entire subdir in one package, with a pre-made fonts.dir included
>>
>> C is the simplest and cleanest option, but introduces a new wrinkle -
>> how do these font directories get into the X server's font path so the
>> fonts are used?    The solution comes from Fedora, who faced similar
>> issues and contributed their solution upstream.   The libXfont we now
>> ship has support for "catalogue" directories - directories which have
>> just symlinks to the actual font directories, so that when you add a
>> font package, it installs its fonts in a new directory, and adds a
>> symlink to the catalogue directory.
>>
>> This is my proposed plan, which I'm working on implementing soon unless
>> someone has a better suggestion.
>>
>> - Create /etc/X11/fontpath.d and add 'catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d'
>>   to the default Xorg font path in nv_101.
>>
>> - Split FSWxorg-fonts into several smaller packages.   Each of
>>   these packages will own one or more subdirectories of
>>   /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts and ship with a prebuilt fonts.dir for
>>   each subdirectory, and add appropriate links to /etc/X11/fontpath.d.
>>
>> - For nv_101, the core font directories will remain in the default Xorg
>>   font path, but as part of the Xorg 1.5.1 integration (currently planned
>>   for sometime around nv_104-106, once 2008.11 is out the door), we'll
>>   drop them and just have catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d as the default
>>   Xorg font path.
>>
>> I'll be doing this work for the fonts shipped from the X11 consolidation.
>> The G11n teams will have to figure out if they want to use this method to
>> replace OWfontpath and other methods of adding the per-locale font
>> directories to the X server font path.
>>
>> The package split I'm currently looking at to replace FSWxorg-fonts is:
>>
>> [For those who don't have all the ISO 8859-* variants memorized, see:
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859#The_Parts_of_ISO.2FIEC_8859 ]
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-core:   the core set of fonts, including Deja Vu, Liberation,
>>  and the default X bitmap fonts in ISO 8859-1,2,15,16.
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,  6.1M
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, 6.8M
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,   10.2M
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,  2.8M
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc,   4.6M
>>        			Total: 30.5M
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-cyrillic: Cyrillic
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, 427k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-daewoo: Daewoo's Korean/Hangul fonts
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/daewoo, 848k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-jiskan: "jiskan" Japanese/Kanji fonts
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/jiskan, 624k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-syriac: Syriac
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/syriac, 6M
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-vera: Bitstream Vera
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/vera, 570k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-3: South European: Turkish, Maltese, and Esperanto
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-3, 210k
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-3, 210k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-4: North European: Baltics, Greenlandic, and Sami
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-4, 210k
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-4, 210k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-9: Turkish
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-9, 210k
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-9, 210k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-10: Nordic
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-10, 210k
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-10, 210k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-13: Baltic Rim
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-13, 210k
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-13, 210k
>>
>> FSWxorg-fonts-iso8859-14: Celtic
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi-ISO8859-14, 210k
>>  /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi-ISO8859-14, 210k
>>
>>   
>>     
>
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