[OSM-talk] Language rendering query

D Tucny d at tucny.com
Fri Jan 16 14:29:04 GMT 2009


2009/1/16 Ted Mielczarek <ted.mielczarek at gmail.com>

>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:31 AM, D Tucny <d at tucny.com> wrote:
>
>> Not now it doesn't... jth did the last render and is obviously missing
>> fonts needed... however, it seems some people do have OK fonts...
>>
>
> Does T at H require the correct fonts to be installed on the user's machine?
> That seems pretty suboptimal. Couldn't it ship a free font with the software
> and use that?
>
>
The T at H installation instructions tell you to install the DejaVu font, a
free font, however, it's coverage, as can be seen here
http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/dejavu/trunk/dejavu-fonts/langcover.txtis
missing some pretty large chunks that would likely take significantly
more effort than has so far gone into the font to fill... as such, to render
any of the missing languages (listed below) alternative fonts are needed...

Amharic
Bihari (Devanagari script)
Bhojpuri (Devanagari script)
Bengali
Tibetan
Cherokee
Dzongkha
Ethiopic (Geez)
Gujarati
Hindi (Devanagari script)
Japanese
Khmer
Kannada
Korean
Kokani (Devanagari script)
Kashmiri (Devanagari script)
Malayalam
Mongolian
Marathi (Devanagari script)
Burmese (Myanmar)
Nepali (Devanagari script)
Oriya
Punjabi (Gurumukhi script)
Sanskrit (Devanagari script)
Sinhala (Sinhalese)
Syriac
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Eritrean Tigrinya
Ethiopian Tigrinya
Tigre
Tagalog
Chinese (simplified)
Chinese Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set
Chinese in Macau
Chinese in Singapore
Chinese (traditional)

There is at least some overlap with some of those languages, and some of
those will not be in common use, at least for naming, but, that is just a
list from the linked completion report above...

d
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