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Re: [Enigma-devel] Russian Localization


From: Daniel Heck
Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Russian Localization
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 09:45:39 +0200
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Ronald Lamprecht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tacvek wrote:
>>> Ronald Lamprecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> @Daniel: AFAIK our current font does not support cyrillic characters.
>>>> How should we support them?
>>>
>>>
>>> Frankly, I don't know... Are there any any free cyrillic truetype fonts
>>> that we could distribute with Enigma? A quick google search did not turn
>>> up anything.
> 
> There are several sources for cyrillic ttf fonts:
> 
> http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.html
> http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html
> 
> As a first experiment I took
> http://www.freelang.com/download/fonts/ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip as it
> has a licence that allows to modify the font. Thus I copied the cyrillic
> characters to dustismo_bold.ttf and added the corresponding unicode
> mappings.

Unfortunately the license of ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip is incompatible
with that of the Dustismo font.  Although the former does permit
modification, it explicitly disallows selling the font and therefore
conflicts with the GPL used by Dustismo.

>> There is a GPL'ed font called ttf-thyromanes that can be found in
>> debian, and it includes cyrillic (in addition to latin, greek, and IPA).
>>
>> The font has no hinting or kerning, which is a downside especially for
>> small font sizes.

The original Dustismo font also had no good hinting, but one run through
Fontforge's autohinting improved the visual appearance of the font
inside Enigma tremendously.  So I don't see this as a major problem.
Same for the missing kerning information; Dustismo, for example, only
has a handful of kerning pairs and still looks quite good.

> @Daniel: Please have a look at the different available fonts and decide
> which font, or which mix we should use in future.

Personally, I don't think mixing different fonts is a good idea -- the
result will always look ugly and unprofessional.  Thryomanes from
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/ appears to be reasonably complete font,
although it has serifs which may not look too good.  But maybe we could
use it anyway, at least as an interim solution.

- Daniel




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