Hi, i'd like to appeal to all the font developers - if it's possible, could you base your great work on the DejaVu font family? These are a Bitstream Vera derivative, so the licensing should't be a problem, but with a lot of completed (and some ongoing) work on non-latin1 charsets - it might not seem like a big issue to you, but the complete lack/brokenness of international support holds a lot of people from using Squeak at all - and i must admit the font machinery in squeak is too complex for me, so i'm one of them in the present time.
With the current FreeType fonts, Squeak is able to load the DejaVu fontsets and display at least the Czech (Latin-2) charset correctly (but the character mapping or input conversion on Win is somehow broken, so i can input them only with a Czech keyboard hack active).
Thanks to your work it seems to me Squeak is approaching some general usefullnes eventually :)
Viktor
 
>From: Juan Vuletich <juan <at> jvuletich.org>
>Subject: Re: Font rendering strategy
>Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general
>Date: 2007-04-29 16:21:48 GMT (3 days, 20 hours and 50 minutes ago)
>
>That would be great. BTW, I'm working on a small set of fonts free of 
>any legal issues, based on Bitstream Vera, Komika and may be others, 
>after a suggestion by Diego. I'm pretty sure they could be part of the 
>official release without any legal concern. The Bitstream license 
>explicitly allows derived works.
>
>Cheers,
>Juan Vuletich
>
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