[haiku-development] Re: Non-latin names in AboutSystem
- From: Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:40:35 +0200
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.
Think about some asiatic languages where the transliteration still
uses a lot of accents and other strange stuff, and thus doesn't
really
help solve the problem.
I prefer to have usability in mind. That are the names wich are used by
those peoples to let the World to know about them. For example, I cannot
pronounce Greek so I cannot to identify those guys somewhere else
outside of our About System Window. But having transliterated names make
theirs chance to become "my handshake and thanks" much bigger.
--
Kind Regards,
S.Zharski
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