langpacks and fonts

[Mattias Eriksson]

While I like to see all the characters when I accidentally opens a
Chinese webpage or document, I think it is bad to have all those useless
(for me) fonts in the font selector in OpenOffice.

I vote for making fonts depend on language packs and remove them from
the basic install. Maybe some extra meta-package to make it easy to
install them for the people that enjoy and for some strange reason often
looks at Chinese/Japanese webpages.

//Snaggen

tis 2005-01-18 klockan 23:23 +1100 skrev Jeff Waugh:
> <quote who="Danilo Šegan">
> 
> > I actually enjoy being able to read (well, to be honest, look at :)
> > Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and other texts with a basic install.
> 
> Yeah, this is pretty valid, and it makes a great impression. Perhaps we can
> ship good, common CJK fonts, and leave the rest for langpack depends? A
> country-specific flavour / derivative will just do the right thing anyway.
> :-)
> 
> - Jeff
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