[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113538] Bundle and use open source Hebrew fonts by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113538

--- Comment #9 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il> ---
(In reply to Shai Berger from comment #8)
> In Israel, as far as I'm aware, it is at least an order of magnitude lower
> (could find no data, which to me indicates that the userbase is insignificant).

The fact that there are no statistics on LO usage does not suggest the userbase
is insignificant. But I agree that the LO usage share is almost certainly lower
for Hebrew-speakers than for other languages. But the share is pretty small
also in other countries.

> My point is: We (the Hebrew community) need to put much greater emphasis on
> first-time users than the world community does.

I don't think your conclusion follows from what you've presented, because LO's
user share is very small for other languages as well, meaning that they too
must emphasize attractiveness to new users. Which brings me to my second point:
You're assuming that users' experience with a Word Processor is essentially
writing on screen, but in fact their experience involves writing, printing and
using the printed document, with the latter being the salient parts of the
experience. For this reason it's important, IMO, to choose a font family which
looks well in print while being reasonably pleasant on screen; and that's the
case both for English and for Hebrew.

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