UN fonts

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Default fontconfig Korean font

Description

The UN fonts package is a longtime Korean favorite, with users going as far as boycotting distributions that omit it. It's a big font set (6 fonts in 9 faces).

Characteristics

Homepage	Format & features	License	Review reference	Koji page	pkgdb page
UN fonts	TTF	GPLv2

Style					Faces					Scripts
Sans		Serif		Other	R	B	I	BI	Other	Latin	Greek	Cyrillic	Other
Variable	Monospace	Variable	Monospace
✘		✘		script, cursive (brush-stroke)	✘	✘				✘	✘	✘	ko,ja

Caveats

1. UN fonts are probably best packaged by a Korean speaker, but this is not a hard rule.
2. Upstream needs to be contacted to add the usual FSF font embedding exception to the license.
3. Upstream needs to be contacted to publish the sfd sources the fonts are built from.
4. Upstream needs to be contacted to clarify it's position WRT GPL v3.

Additional information

Fontconfig has been changed upstream to use UN as default Korean font set instead of Baekmuk (current Fedora Korean font).

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