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

[IRIE Shinsuke]

Hi,

There is another reason to use system-wide fonts.  We perhaps cannot
prepare "monospace" fonts without license issue for all languages
Blender supports.  If we cannot, Blender has to use system-wide fonts
(or drop supports for such languages).  In such case, performing font
substitutions may be needed if the system-wide font doesn't include
ascii characters.

IRIE Shinsuke

13/03/01, Campbell Barton wrote:
> 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.
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