Bug#360829: xfonts-cronyx-75dpi: why culture::taiwanese?

Anton Zinoviev anton at lml.bas.bg
Mon Oct 23 20:00:45 UTC 2006


On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:10:11PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> 
> The culture::* tags are intended to be used when someone looks for
> specific support for a given culture.  So an italian can look for
> packages matching culture::italian to find spellcheckers, fortune
> databases and so on. 

OK.

> A package can have many tags, so the culture::russian tag doesn't
> mean that only the Russians use cyrillic: if it's applicable, I can
> attach the culture::bulgarian and IIRC also culture::mongolian
> (please tell me if there are more) tags to the font, so that other
> people who use the Cyrillic script can find the fonts they need.

In my opinion it is not useful to give culture:bulgarian or
culture:russian to any font package because most fonts in Debian
support both Bulgarian and Russian and such tags won't be very useful
to the users looking for Bulgarian or Russian culture.  Moreover
xfonts-{bolkhov,cronyx}-* have today only marginal use since people
now use scalable fonts.  (One possible exception is perhaps t1-teams
because in this font the look of some of the letters is typical
Bulgarian fashion and is not used outside of Bulgaria.)

On the other hand for less supported languages it is useful to give
the culture:LANG tags to the fonts that support the particular
language.  For example currently most of the fonts in Debian do not
support the non-Slavic Cyrillic languages.  In particular
xfonts-{bolkhov,cronyx}-* do not support the Mongolian language and
hence culture:mongolian can not be given to them.

The following the list of the culture:LANG tags with non-Slavic
Cyrillic LANG for the font packages I maintain:

xfonts-terminus, console-terminus
culture:azerbaijani,buryat,bashkir,chuvash,kyrgyz,kazakh,mongolian,ossetic,tajik,uzbek

ttf-arhangai
culture:mongolian

t1-cyrillic
culture:abkhaz,bashkir,buryat,chuvash,kazakh,kyrgyz,mongolian,ossetic,tajik,uzbek

Anton Zinoviev



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