On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Christian Lohmaier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lohmaier%2Blibreoffice@googlemail.com">lohmaier+libreoffice@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Sampha, *,<br><div class="im">
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Samphan Raruenrom <<a href="mailto:samphan@osdev.co.th">samphan@osdev.co.th</a>> wrote:<br>
> I've done a small research on preferred fonts for Thai in<br>
> Windows/Linux/MacOSX by consulting several communities, font developers and<br>
> authority.<br>
</div>Cood to hear, as most of us will not really know Thai fonts and their<br>
difference and won't know what fonts are available on the various<br>
systems.<br><div class="im">
> Here is the modification that the Thai community decide that best<br>
</div>> for Thai locale. [...]<br>
<div class="im">> Please review it and make comments if anything wrong or need to be improved<br>
> before committing.<br>
</div>No complaints, sounds reasonable enough, so go ahead and commit.<br>
Just noticed that you removed OONaksit completely, although it was<br>
ranking second or third in the previous lists. But as indicated above:<br>
I cannot judge the font-choice, I can only comment on the technical<br>
part of it, and that is OK from my side. Seems to have a<br>
StarOffice/variant-thereof only font if I interpret<br>
<a href="http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42738#c7" target="_blank">http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42738#c7</a> correctly.<br></blockquote><div><br>For the record, OONaksit is the font that is bundled with a fork of OpenOffice.org 1.x (actually we have TWO forks of OpenOffice.org 1.x to enable Thai CTL while OOo didn't support i18n yet). However, the two forks were ended to promote single OpenOffice when OOo 2.0 CTL support was good enough. Some patches from both forks went into OOo and that's why OONaksit is there. But no one get OONaksit installed anymore so we decide to remove it. We add some famous Thai fonts which are included in several Linux distros. And for Thai fonts bundled in MacOSX only Thonburi is voted as good enough. We decide to add TH_Sarabun which is not bundled in any platform but is mandated as THE official font in government sector. And it is also the only font that look good across the 3 platforms so including it help users in mixed environment to exchange documents across platform easier, using the same font.<br>
<br>Thank for reviewing the patch :)<br>Samphan.<br>_/|\_ <br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Choice of fonts is left to Thai community, so again: Go ahead :-) (can<br>
also use it for 3-4 branch)<br>
<br>
ciao<br>
<font color="#888888">Christian<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>_/|\_ Samphan Raruenrom. Open Source Development Co., Ltd.<br>Tel: +66 38 311816, Fax: +66 38 773128, <a href="http://www.osdev.co.th/">http://www.osdev.co.th/</a><br>