[Bf-committers] builtin bfont.ttf upgrade

[Jiří Hnídek]

Hi Matt,
it seems, that it works here (I can't see all characters). Can you
upload font file too?

Jiri

Matt Ebb napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> Jiri (and another person on the forums) have previously noted that the
> default included interface TTF font file doesn't include very many
> characters, and doesn't cover their language's character sets. This is a
> problem for Jiri, who's translating Blender into Czech.
> 
> The builtin bfont.ttf is Vera Sans, an 'open source' font donated by
> Bitstream a while ago, but it doesn't support much more than the basic
> Latin alphabet. There's a variant of Vera now, called DejaVu Sans, which
> has been extended to include many more characters, and it would be good
> to use this as the bfont.ttf instead. The only problem is that DejaVu is
> (to the project's credit) very complete, and quite large. The straight
> DejaVu Sans bfont.ttf.c source file after running datatoc is quite huge
> - about 1.8MB.
> 
> So I opened up the source file in FontForge and trimmed it down a bit to
> make a kind of DejaVu 'lite'. I got rid of these character sets:
> - IPA/Phonetic extensions
> - Arabic (I don't think blender's text system supports right-to-left
> anyway, and there is no arabic translation)
> - Greek extended (ancient greek)
> - dingbats and obscure mathematical symbols
> - Braille
> 
> It's not about 40% of the original size, but it still contains enough to
> support most of our included translations and future ones too
> - All basic and extended Latin ( covering most eastern European
> languages, and also Vietnamese)
> - Cyrillic
> - Greek
> 
> I've put the source file online here: http://mke3.net/rt/bfont.ttf.c.zip
> . If people who use non-english translations in Blender could put it in
> their source/blender/src dir, compile and test, that would be great. If
> it works well, and I haven't gone too far in my editing, I can commit it.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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