I18N/Fonts

Upstream Fonts

• Liberation fonts
• Lohit fonts
• Red Hat font

Fonts related Fedora-features/changes achievements

• f34: Enable HarfBuzz in FreeType
• f32: Move fonts language Provides to Langpacks
• f32: Provide OpenType Bitmap Fonts
• f31: Variable Noto Fonts
• f29: CJK Default Fonts To Noto
• f29: Liberation Fonts 2
• f28: Fontconfig 2.13
• f27: Chinese Serif Fonts
• f26: Fontconfig cache directory change
• f22: Lohit2 Odia Telugu
• f22: New Default Console Font
• f21: Lohit Odia and Gurmukhi font naming
• f18: Fontconfig 2.10
• f17: Font Configuration Tool
• f17: Lohit Unicode 6.0 support

Default fonts installation criteria

• Default installation will have at least one font for scripts available on Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) .
• For script available on other planes of Unicode. One should do request through bugzilla for default installation of corresponding font.

Bugs

• fonts bugs (rawhide, f34, f33)

• fontconfig bugs (rawhide, f34, f33)

• pango bugs (rawhide, f34, f33)

Upstream Bugs

• open fontconfig bugs

Resources

• Fedora Fonts SIG
• Font Packaging Guidelines
• Default Fonts status page
  • I18N/F34_Fonts
• Default Fonts difference for previous releases

Tasks

• fontconfig to allow adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts as a default zh_CN font and adobe-source-han-sans-twhk-fonts as a default zh_TW font

Bitmap Font Conversion for Fedora 31

• Bitmap Font Conversion

Meetings

Meetings are held biweekly on #fedora-i18n on Wednesdays at 0500 UTC.

• Meetings pages