New Lao XKB

[Anousak Souphavanh]

Thanks, Nicolas, for your info. I'll look into each mentioned issue
name xkb and DejaVU and follow up with them accordingly.

Regards,
Anousak

On 7/12/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Le Jeu 12 juillet 2007 13:31, Anousak Souphavanh a écrit :
>
> > I am Anousak Souphavanh, am a Lao team lead on major Open Source
> > developments. I was the one that submitted Lao XKB two years ago but
> > since then the government has changed keyboard layout and I would like
> > to submit the new one to Xorg for mass distribution.
>
> Just post a patch there
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config
>
> > Also, I was wondering if Xorg is responsible for distributing free
> > UNICODE OpenType fonts or not. We have created FREE Lao UNICODE font
> > that can be submitted to [Xorg]. If not, please suggest as which
> > organization is responsible.
>
> If you have an active font project that regularly releases updates and
> enhanced versions of the fonts it's much better to set up a dedicated
> project, at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/ , sourceforge, or
> freedesktop.org. xorg core mission is not font development and if you
> get yourself bundled you'll always be an afterthought.
>
> Also most distributors will probably want to know how your font
> compares to  the Lao support of DejaVu, as users complain if too many
> similar fonts are shipped. (if your font style is very different
> that's not a problem, but if not fixing the problems you may have with
> fonts already widely distributed is the preferred approach)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>
>


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Anousak (Anthony) Souphavanh
"Small can make a big impact"