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James Cloos | 2 Jul 2009 23:13
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Re: [Bug 485857] Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

> I'm sorry to say that Vietnamese does not have any serious font for
> programming. The only monospace font which fully support Vietnamese
> characters is Courier New (a Microsoft font),

Can you describe what DejaVu Sans Mono needs to add to fully support
Vietnamese characters?

-JimC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy | 3 Jul 2009 04:15
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Re: [Bug 485857] Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

On 7/3/09, James Cloos <cloos@...> wrote:
> > I'm sorry to say that Vietnamese does not have any serious font for
>  > programming. The only monospace font which fully support Vietnamese
>  > characters is Courier New (a Microsoft font),
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>  Can you describe what DejaVu Sans Mono needs to add to fully support
>  Vietnamese characters?

I believe a few glyphs are missing. It'd be great those glyphs are
added. I can list them if you want.

On the other hand, monospace fonts for Vietnamese are there: Droid
fonts (from Android) and urwvn fonts (probably added to urw-fonts
already [1]). There are also bitmap fonts "terpinus" [2] derived from
terminus for Vietnamese support.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=122899
[2] http://repo.or.cz/w/terpinus.git
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James Cloos | 3 Jul 2009 11:25
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Re: [Bug 485857] Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

>>>>> "Nguyen" == Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@...> writes:

Nguyen> I believe a few glyphs are missing. It'd be great those glyphs are
Nguyen> added. I can list them if you want.

Indeed. Please do.

-JimC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy | 6 Jul 2009 05:56
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Re: [Bug 485857] Add Vietnamese Unicode Glyph support to Liberation fonts

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM, James Cloos<cloos <at> jhcloos.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Nguyen" == Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> Nguyen> I believe a few glyphs are missing. It'd be great those glyphs are
> Nguyen> added. I can list them if you want.
>
> Indeed. Please do.

I'm having trouble building the fonts, this check is performed
manually so I might miss some glyphs. The missing glyphs are:

0x1EA3, 0x1EA2 (a with hook above)
0x1EA5, 0x1EA4 (a with circumflex and acute)
0x1EA7, 0x1EA6 (a with circumflex and grave)
0x1EA9, 0x1EA8 (a with circumflex and tilde)
0x1EAF, 0x1EAE (a with breve and acute)
0x1EB3, 0x1EB2 (a with breve and hook above)
0x1EB5, 0x1EB4 (a with breve and tilde)
0x1EBB, 0x1EBA (e with hook above)
0x1EBF, 0x1EBE (e with circumflex and acute)
0x1EC1, 0x1EC0 (e with circumflex and grave)
0x1EC3, 0x1EC2 (e with circumflex and hook above)
0x1EC5, 0x1EC4 (e with circumflex and tilde)
0x1EC9, 0x1EC8 (i with hook above)
0x1ECF, 0x1ECE (o with hook above)
0x1ED1, 0x1ED0 (o with circumflex and acute)
0x1ED3, 0x1ED2 (o with circumflex and grave)
0x1ED5, 0x1ED4 (o with circumflex and hook above)
0x1ED7, 0x1ED6 (o with circumflex and tilde)
0x1EDF, 0x1EDE (o with horn and hook above)
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Eugeniy Meshcheryakov | 15 Jul 2009 14:22
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Re: Fix for MS Office incompatibilities with DejaVu fonts

Hello,

I removed "Symbol Charset" from Sans and Sans Condensed in SVN repository.
It was not set in Oblique or Bold fonts. Please test if it works as
expected.

Regards,
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov

8 травня 2009 о 12:34 -0400 Cody Boisclair написав(-ла):
> Back in February, Arno Rog wrote about an issue regarding the DejaVu  
> fonts showing up as boxes in an older version of Microsoft PowerPoint,  
> an issue which I've also noticed in Windows' WordPad app.
>
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=loom.20090219T071722-911%40post.gmane.org 
>  >
> 
> I think I've found a solution to the problem based on the behavior in  
> WordPad, and this should be easily patchable for the next release of  
> the fonts:
> 
> Load up the font in FontForge. In the Font Info window, go to the OS/2  
> tab, then the Charsets sub-tab. Under MS Code Pages, *deselect*  
> "Symbol Charset", then save the font. Repeat for all of the DejaVu  
> Sans fonts-- note that this issue does NOT apply to Mono or Serif,  
> only Sans.
> 
> (I'm not experienced enough in FontForge scripting to know how to  
> automate this yet, but I could probably figure it out with a bit of  
> time.)
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Cody Boisclair | 16 Jul 2009 05:05
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Re: Fix for MS Office incompatibilities with DejaVu fonts


On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:

> I removed "Symbol Charset" from Sans and Sans Condensed in SVN  
> repository.
> It was not set in Oblique or Bold fonts. Please test if it works as
> expected.

I had a copy of Office 2000 handy to test, and the problem with the  
DejaVu fonts was indeed fixed by the SVN version.

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