patch for Asian fonts for fedora, changing paths to fonts files. Dependencies are necessary to be added to rpms.

[Jiri Vanek]

On 11/22/2010 11:54 PM, Omair Majid wrote:
> On 11/03/2010 07:25 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
>> background is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643674
>> and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582455 and
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=622680
>>
>> I was speaking with author of cjkuni fonts (and will ensure with autor
>> of beakmuk and szma and lohit - but expect same result)and he confiremd
>> that in f14 there was big refactoring of fonts (backported to f13 but no
>> more deep ). This newly re-factored paths should be "final" (:DD )
>>
>> Reproducer was created for those fonts (arabic - default ok, chinese,
>> japanese, corean and indic) - as Pavel mentioned some time ago.
>>
>> So my suggestion is to update fontconfig.Fedora.properties to new
>> version ant to keep old file as fontconfig.Fedora.12.properties and 11
>> (nothing more we suppotrt (?)..)
>>
>> This patch is for all except indic (which will come soon)
>>
>> I think we have to move this, because there are missconfigured paths
>> also in rhel 5 and 6 and..there are also complains (Oracle do not
>> support those fonts, so i can recommend nothing more then to swap to
>> openjdk...)
>>
>> Except configuration issue there is also issue with dependencies.
>> Whether to add them to spec file. I'm for add them into spec file. As
>> Deepak mentioned - 40mb of dependencies is not such a big amount in
>> today's days.
>>

So this is valid since f14. I was not changing font configs so deep... I 
repaired already predefined ones.

Rhel 6 is using vlgothics, and and fix for those configs is in high 
priority. I will do it asap, and when It will be fixed for rhel 6, I 
will "backport it" to fedora.
>
> The Fedora localizations requirements [1] lists that the default fedora
> fonts for Japanese is VLGothic. For Korean the fonts are various Un
> fonts. Is there a reason that OpenJDK deviates from this and uses
> Sazanami and Baekmuk?
>
..hystorical...
> Thanks,
> Omair
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Localization_fonts_requirements


Regards J.