<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7653.38"> <TITLE>RE: [sugar] Default templates with Write to complex script countries</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Thanks Edward,               That is awesome work already. Cheers Martin -----Original Message----- From: Edward Cherlin [<A HREF="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">mailto:echerlin@gmail.com</A>] Sent: Thu 11/27/2008 6:27 PM To: Martin Edmund Sevior Cc: sugar@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [sugar] Default templates with Write to complex script countries On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Martin Sevior <martines@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > Hello everyone, >               I haven't received much feedback on this so we're going > with DejaVu-Sans for Arabic. I recommend KACST Book. > I've setup a section on the Write wiki where people can fill in the best > font for their Language. > > <A HREF="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write#Description_.26_Goals">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Write#Description_.26_Goals</A> I added lots more languages and fonts, based on my own opinion of the available Free TrueType fonts. I tried to select the most readable of the traditional fonts in each case. My impression is that we will need more fonts for more languages soon, with expanding deployments. At some point we will run into the need to handle minority languages and the languages of history, commerce, and religion needed by each community. That could include Greek, Hebrew (with Aramaic, and possibly Yiddish and Ladino), Church Slavonic, Armenian, Syriac, Coptic, Uighur, and several more Mongolian writing systems, plus many more extensions of Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic. But perhaps most of those can wait until the successors of the XO have more storage. <snip> </BODY> </HTML>