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''An Ethiopic unicode font pack''
 
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== Description ==
== Description ==


Ethiopic Unicode fonts released by the Senamirmir project.
A set of high quality unicode fonts for the  Geʼez (Ethiopic) script published by the Senamirmir project. They can be used to write Ethiopic and Eritrean languages (Amharic, Blin, Geʼez, Harari, Meʼen, Tigre, Tigrinya…).
 
 
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== Characteristics ==
== Characteristics ==
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| [[rhbug:503617|503617]]
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== Caveats ==
# Each font family must go in a separate subpackage
# It seems the link for the latest font pack zip is broken right now. An older (GPL) version is available from the downloads page, but it's missing a few fonts and the others are old versions
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== Additional information ==
== Additional information ==


This is a big (12+) pack of modern Unicode fonts. It used to be licensed as GPL+font exception, and is now OFL. Fedora users have [http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleAmharic/browse_thread/thread/6a0620907bdec182 expressed] a need for those fonts a long time ago.
This is a big pack of modern Unicode fonts. It used to be licensed as GPL+font exception, and is now OFL. Fedora users have [http://groups.google.com/group/GoogleAmharic/browse_thread/thread/6a0620907bdec182 expressed] a need for those fonts a long time ago.
 
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Revision as of 23:05, 1 June 2009

A page of the Fonts Special Interest Group

Fonts for the Geʼez (Ethiopic) script

Description

A set of high quality unicode fonts for the Geʼez (Ethiopic) script published by the Senamirmir project. They can be used to write Ethiopic and Eritrean languages (Amharic, Blin, Geʼez, Harari, Meʼen, Tigre, Tigrinya…).

Characteristics

Homepage Format & features License Review reference Koji page pkgdb page
Senamirmir TTF OFL 503617

Additional information

This is a big pack of modern Unicode fonts. It used to be licensed as GPL+font exception, and is now OFL. Fedora users have expressed a need for those fonts a long time ago.



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