Hoary fonts

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 22 19:13:08 CST 2005


On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:20:00AM +0100, H. C. Brugmans wrote:

> On a related issue, why are all these weird fonts installed by default?
> Free TrueType fonts for the Malayalam language
> Gargi and Lohit Hindi are fonts for Devanagari, the script used in languages
> such as Sanskrit, Hindi, and Marathi.
> Padmaa Medium, Padmaa Bold, Rekha, and Lohit are fonts for Gujarati.
> Saab, Saab Bold and Lohit Panjabi are fonts for Punjabi (Gurmukhi).
> Sampige is a font for Kannada.
> utkalm is a font for Oriya.
> Pothana2000 is a font for Telugu

They are installed in order to allow these scripts to be viewed (for
example, in web pages).

Now that we have the language-support- metapackages for this purpose,
perhaps the dependencies can be moved there.

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 - mdz



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