Re: Vera -> DejaVu fonts?

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:15:38PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Should we import the DejaVu fonts as default TrueType fonts for
> xenocara, i.e., as replacement for the Vera fonts?
> 
> The DejaVu fonts are an extension of Bitstream Vera and are under
> the same license.  The DejaVu fonts cover a greater range of
> characters.  This helps a lot with Firefox for scientific texts,
> IPA, and Greek.  Our embryonic port of Chromium profits even more,
> (e.g., Cyrillic works) since Chromium seems less apt at cobbling
> together glyphs from different (non-TrueType?) fonts.
> 
> Are there any downsides to importing DejaVu?

The only downside I can see is that if we remove vera fonts, some
people will complain that their fonts are broken again, especially if
they had explicitely configured applications to use them.

Applications using generic fontconfig should be fine as fontconfig
chooses DejaVu as 2nd choice just after Vera for most cases.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb