[Nix-dev] Call for input method PR review

[Raahul Kumar]

I see Lohit and Marathi, but that compares poorly to Debian/Fedora/Arch etc
etc, which have the entire set of Bharati languages working out of the box.
Fairly massive effort to package
this many fonts, but I guess the only option is to get started. Is there
any easy way to test unicode coverage of fonts versus Unicode 8.0.0? I am
thinking of perhaps starting a Unicode OTF
font packaging effort, but it would be nice to track how close the goal is.
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicFontsList
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/data/fonts

Aloha,
RK.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Eric Sagnes <eric.sagnes at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are quite a lot of international fonts available in nixpkgs.
> The few I use are IPAFont (Japanese) and baekmuk (Korean) and they look
> very decent.
>
> For other languages, there is the noto font that self advert as
> "Beautiful and free fonts for all languages" also available.
>
> Fonts are easy to package, and in case you find a font not available yet
> in nixpkgs that should be in, just add an issue.
>
> The best part with fonts in NixOS is that they can be configured in
> configuration.nix with `fonts.fonts` and `fonts.fontconfig`.
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 02:10:58PM +1000, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > Looking forward to this, but I assume Nixos probably doesn't package any
> > decent fonts for languages outside of English.
> >
> > Aloha,
> > RK.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Yasuaki Kudo <yasu at yasuaki.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Many thanks in advance, looking fward to it!  Yasuaki :-)
> > >
> > > > On Feb 22, 2016, at 11:14, 宋文武 <iyzsong at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Eric Sagnes <eric.sagnes at gmail.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> The PR to improve the state of input methods [1] in NixOS is ready
> for
> > > review.
> > > >> Input methods are a way to input characters/symbols that are not
> > > >> available on the keyboard, see wikipedia for more details [2].
> > > >>
> > > >> Input methods being a very important feature for non alphabetical
> > > >> languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, ...),
> > > >> it could be nice to have this PR merged for 16.03.
> > > > Agree, this indeed low the barrier to NixOS for CJK folks.
> > > >
> > > > Merged, thanks!
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