[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 29465] New: Remove locl substitutions for Romanian

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29465

           Summary: Remove locl substitutions for Romanian
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: General
        AssignedTo: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mihai at mihaic.ro


Created an attachment (id=37740)
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Firefox rendering both with and without locl at the same time

DejaVu currently uses locl substitution for Romanian, as introduced with SVN
revisions 2258, 2259 and 2260.

These substitutions are causing confusion.

The problem with Romanian letters Ș and Ț is ongoing; it is in no way
historical. The best example I can think of is the Romanian Wikipedia still
using the old Unicode code points for compatibility reasons, and even
automatically transforming the new code points in edited text to the old code
points. [1]

Furthermore, the implementation of locl is not uniform. For example, Firefox
and Chromium use locl in the GUI, but don't use it for content. See the
attached screenshot from Ubuntu 10.04.

In these circumstances, the false consistency introduced by the locl
substitutions only makes things worse by confusing people about the code points
they are using.

[1] (Romanian)
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Diacriticele_vechi_%C8%99i_noi

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