[Bug 73211] Re: MonoUralic contains incorrect encoding information

[Arne Goetje]

Any update on this?

Actually, I'd like to close this issue, since the fonts in question are
only to be used with the modified CP1251 encoding for Uralic. Since we
use Unicode (UTF-8) for all languages, these fonts would only be
interesting for users who want to display Uralic documents which use the
broken encoding.

All other users should refrain from installing this font package. It is
simply not meant to be used for other purposes and only exists for
compatibility for this special case.

Also, we simply don't fork fonts in Ubuntu, requests like this should
actually go to upstream.

(Since this was one of the first font modification requests I got, I
considered to fulfill this request, because I thought it would be a one
time issue. However, since more and more users report similar requests
for other fonts which are actually the same case (they want to use the
fonts for purposes they were not designed for), I decided to simply not
doing this, since users will complain "you did this for another case,
why not for mine?". I simply don't have the resources (read: "time") to
fulfil all kind of wishes in different fonts, when it is actually
upstream's job to do this.)

I hope you understand my point of view.

If you want to display Uralic characters in general, you can use other
fonts which contain Cyrillic glyphs. Most of those fonts should also
contain the necessary Uralic glyphs In Unicode encoding (if they don't,
request upstream to add them ;) ). Those Unicode fonts can then also be
used to display other languages.

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