[Pkg-fonts-devel] ITP: fonts-sil-javanese

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Fri Sep 18 10:54:53 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Daniel Glassey <wdg at debian.org> wrote:
> You wrote:
>>Javanese script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 2009 with
>>the release of version 5.2. [1]
>>
>>Recently, there is not any Javanese Unicode fonts in Debian / Ubuntu
>>main repository yet. So here I suggest some of Javanese Unicode fonts to
>>be packaged for Debian.
>>
>>The source for packaging is in:
>>https://code.launchpad.net/~bedouin/+junk/carakan-fonts
>>
>>The license for each fonts is based on SIL Open Font License.
>>
>>[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_script#Unicode
>
> Dear slamet badwi,
>
> Thankyou for your suggestion to packaga Javanese fonts.
> Are you still interested in doing this?
>
> I think the package name should be fonts-javanese. fonts-sil-javanese would mean that the organisation SIL has
> created the fonts.

Probably the package name should reflect the name of the upstream
project instead of the language name? I would suggest fonts-jawa,
fonts-tuladhajejeg or similar:

http://sites.google.com/site/jawaunicode/
https://sites.google.com/site/jawaunicode/TuladhaJejegGr_2.01.zip

-- 
bye,
pabs

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