<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Petr Mladek <<a href="mailto:pmladek@suse.cz">pmladek@suse.cz</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Samphan, first, thanks for your patch. I am not expert on fonts, so please excuse my potentially ignorant questions. Samphan Raruenrom píše v Čt 17. 03. 2011 v 15:02 +0700: <div class="im">> See <a href="http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_AndaleSansUI.html" target="_blank">http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_AndaleSansUI.html</a> > Andale Sans UI (soui.ttf) > Source: Supplied with StarOffice 7.0, which is free for > education and research purposes. > Stats: Version 1.10 has 668 glyphs and 3,400 kerning pairs > Support: Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, Latin > > Since Andale Sans UI is only available for PC that have installed > StarOffice 7 (or newer), I suggest we remove the font from LO default > font fallback lists because not many people will have the font > installed anyway. </div>Hmm, I think that it does not cause any harm if "Andale Sans UI" is in the fallback list. It is ignored if it is not installed. Former StarOffice users might want to use it for backward compatibility. <div class="im"> > This is what the patch does: > 1) remove all instance of Andale Sans UI </div>Could you please explain what it the advantage of this change? I think that I have missed something. </blockquote><div> OK. I see the point. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> > 2) for UI_SANS, if Andale Sans UI is the first-priority font, use > Tahoma instead because it has better glyph coverage than Arial Unicode > MS </div>It seems to me that Arial Unicode MS supports more unicode ranges and code pages, see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?fmid=1081" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?fmid=1081</a> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1805" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1805</a> Or is Tahoma better for a particular language? </blockquote><div> I've just found after I've sent the email that Arial Unicode MS has much better glyph coverage. Sorry for not having done the homework enough :P And for that reson, I think we should prefer "Arial Unicode MS" to Andale Sans UI in UI_SANS case. I'll discuss the rationale in the next reply (to Christian). </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"> > 3) for th locale, the Thai community are coming with better default > font lists that work cross-platform </div>Sounds great. Best Regards, Petr </blockquote></div> -- _/|\_ Samphan Raruenrom. Open Source Development Co., Ltd. Tel: +66 38 311816, Fax: +66 38 773128, <a href="http://www.osdev.co.th/">http://www.osdev.co.th/</a>