[haiku-development] Re: Non-latin names in AboutSystem
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:57:54 +0100
Siarzhuk Zharski wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:39:21 +0100, Adrien Destugues wrote:
> >>> They can become unreadable in case current font for About dialog on
> >>> the
> >>> user system has no corresponding national characters. At least
> >>> cyrilic
> >>> names are added usually in transliterated form.
> > Font fallback anyone ?
> > If we start transliterating greek and cyrillic, we'll want to remove
> > accents from latin alphabet too and stick to 7bit ASCII...
> > I think that's a bad idea, we have utf-8 support and should use it.
>
> That is not a question of encoding, but lack of some codepages in the
> current font. I see no sense using font with complete codepages support
> for daily using, because it consumes lot of resource. AFAIR the
> all-in-one font from BitStream was about 15 MB big. And some fonts are
> good to render latin charsets, some to asian ones. By the way, the
> default font can be set on installation correspondent to user selected
> locale.
I don't know, if that is an actual concern. If so, it should be solved
properly. Haiku should just deal correctly with whatever Unicode characters are
thrown at it. If you open a Wikipedia page usually a lot of scripts are used on
it (the language selection on the left side). That should work properly just
the same.
So I'd vote for using the native script for the contributor's name, plus a
transliteration/transciption in parentheses.
CU, Ingo
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