Bug 27635

Summary:	Include Noto Sans Hebrew by default
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Omer I.S. <omeritzicschwartz>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	lewyssmith, mageia, omeritzicschwartz
Version:	7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Preview of the fallback font v.s. Noto Sans Hebrew

Description Omer I.S. 2020-11-19 13:20:59 CET

Please include Noto Sans Hebrew by default for users who use Mageia in Hebrew.
There is no good Hebrew sans-serif font included in Mageia yet, and the fallback fonts provide a bad support for Hebrew Niqud (the Hebrew vowels, like Al'Tashkil).

Omer I.S. 2020-11-19 13:33:58 CET

Component: New RPM package request => RPM Packages

Comment 1 Omer I.S. 2020-11-19 17:10:27 CET

Created attachment 12007 [details]
Preview of the fallback font v.s. Noto Sans Hebrew

CC: (none) => omeritzicschwartz

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-11-19 21:33:29 CET

Can you say what is the 'fallback' (default?) Hebrew font? We offer:
 fonts-type1-hebrew
 google-noto-sans-hebrew-fonts
 google-noto-serif-hebrew-fonts
Do you get it automatically at installation?
Are you saying that the default font could simply be replaced by the Noto one?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith, mageia

Comment 3 Omer I.S. 2020-11-19 23:38:57 CET

(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #2)
> Can you say what is the 'fallback' (default?) Hebrew font? We offer:
>  fonts-type1-hebrew
>  google-noto-sans-hebrew-fonts
>  google-noto-serif-hebrew-fonts
> Do you get it automatically at installation?
> Are you saying that the default font could simply be replaced by the Noto
> one?

The default font is DejaVu Sans (as I know). Including Noto fonts can be very helpful and useful for Hebrew and for other languages. Project Culmus contains nice Hebrew free fonts, including them too will be great. DejaVu Sans can be replaced if it is not used in other languages.

Comment 4 Omer I.S. 2020-11-19 23:39:30 CET

Link to the official website of Project Culmus: http://culmus.sourceforge.net/index.html

Comment 5 Martin Whitaker 2020-11-20 00:29:49 CET

% urpmq -i fonts-type1-hebrew
Name        : fonts-type1-hebrew
Version     : 0.130
Release     : 6.mga7
Group       : System/Fonts/Type1
Size        : 1940481                      Architecture: noarch
Source RPM  : fonts-type1-hebrew-0.130-6.mga7.src.rpm
URL         : http://culmus.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Hebrew Type1 fonts
Description :
This Package provides free Hebrew Type1 fonts, courtesy of the Culmus project.

If you select Hebrew as a language during installation, fonts-type1-hebrew should get installed by default. It is present on both the classical installer and the Live ISOs.

The Google Noto Hebrew fonts are available in the main repository.

I don't know what more we can do.

Comment 6 Omer I.S. 2020-11-20 01:45:52 CET

Noto Sans Hebrew should be installed by default for a better Niqud support.

But, installing all Noto fonts by default can improve the displaying of non-latin letters.

Comment 7 Omer I.S. 2020-11-20 12:22:49 CET

I'll open new two bugs instead of this because this enhancement is two enhancements.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX