On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Christian Lohmaier < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Samphan, *, > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Samphan Raruenrom <[email protected]> > wrote: > > [...] > > 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. > > You forgot the discussion from February already? > Sorry. My English is not very good so I may not understand your message fully. > > Please explain the "why" > > I definitely say "-1" to removing Andale Sans UI unless you refer to > the thread in earyl February and explain why you still think it is a > good thing to do. > >From Petr's reply, I agree that we should retaion Andale Sans UI for compatibility with StarOffice 7 users. > > > 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 > > This is a bogus argument, as the there is a font-list especially for > the purpose of finding a font that covers the glyph-area. > And I kind of doubt that Arial Unicode has less glyphs than Tahoma. Do > you have an example? > Sorry. I've just found after I sent the email that Arial Unicode MS have very good glyph coverage. > > 3) for th locale, the Thai community are coming with better default font > > lists that work cross-platform > > This is fine with me. > I'll send a patch for the th locale after the Thai community reach a conclusion on this. > > But again: > > > Please take a look and make comments. > > You had those comments in February already. And now you come with the > very same proposal of removing Andale Sans UI without even referring > to the previous thread. > Sorry again for that. I misunderstand the thread and thought that you'd like to see the patch. I'll read your Feb comments again. > > ciao > Christian > -- _/|\_ Samphan Raruenrom. Open Source Development Co., Ltd. Tel: +66 38 311816, Fax: +66 38 773128, http://www.osdev.co.th/
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