I18N/Fonts

Asian Fonts

Fedora I18n maintains various fonts, in particular many for Asian languages. See also SIGs/Fonts for Fedora Fonts in general and Lohit for Indic.

Default fonts installation criteria

• Default installation will have at least one font for scripts available on Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) .
• For script available on other planes of Unicode. One should do request through bugzilla for default installation of corresponding font.

Default fonts packages

• Chinese: adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts for zh_CN (simplified Chinese) and adobe-source-han-sans-twhk-fonts for zh_TW (traditional Chinese) since f21.
• Indic: see I18N/Indic#Fonts_list.
• Japanese: vlgothic-fonts
• Korean: un-core-dotum-fonts
• Thai: thai-scalable-waree-fonts

Bugs

• fonts bugs (rawhide, f12, f11)

• fontconfig bugs (rawhide, f12, f11)

• pango bugs (rawhide, f12, f11)

Upstream Bugs

• open fontconfig bugs

Tasks

• fontconfig to allow wqy-zenhei-fonts as a default zh font

Meetings

Meetings are held biweekly on #fedora-i18n on Wednesdays at 0500 UTC.

• Meetings pages