[Bf-committers] Cannot the international font be removed from SVN?

[Campbell Barton]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:50 AM, IRIE Shinsuke <irieshinsuke at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Recently I submitted a patch and a bug related to the
> internationalization:
>
> [#34373] Use i18n monospace font in Text editor and Python console
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=34373&group_id=9&atid=127
>
> [#34396] Some kanji characters in i18n font are unreadable for Japanese users
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=34396&group_id=9&atid=498
>
> The patch [#34373] obviously needs additional international font for
> displaying CJK characters properly.  Also, Japanese font is needed to
> solve the bug [#34396].  So, Blender have to use the following fonts
> at least:
>
> (1) proportional font (default)       = bfont.ttf
> (2) monospace font (default)          = bmonofont.ttf
> (3) proportional font (international) = droidsans.ttf
> (4) monospace font (international)
> (5) proportional font (Japanese)
> (6) monospace font (Japanese)
>
> I'm not sure if the other languages need additional fonts.
>
> If we solve these issues by adding the fonts (4)-(6) above, file
> sizes of the release archives increase by 5-10MB.  Maybe Linux distro
> maintainers hate such bundled fonts because they must remove the
> fonts and apply some patches to build distro packages.
>
> I think the the international font should be removed and system-wide
> fonts should be used instead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> IRIE Shinsuke

As long as they are not loaded into memory when unused, I don't think
its such a problem to distribute them with Blender.

If Linux distros want to remove them from the packages we can make
sure its possible to fonts on the system as a build option or just
link the font to where blender expects it.