Re: [Ankur-users] about adding Bangla fonts into FreeBSD ports

[Jamil A. <its...@gm...>]

On 10/18/07, Byung-Hee HWANG <bh...@iz...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 16:22 +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Byung-Hee HWANG <bh...@iz...> wrote:
> > > For FreeBSD users, I am going to add Bangla fonts into FreeBSD ports.
> > > Before to do the work, I want to listen to your advices or opinions ;;
> >
> > You can include Bangla fonts from Debian's package [0]. Also Freefont
> > [1] package has Bangla support.
>
> It's really good advice, thanks!
>
> > Btw, what about bn_BD and bn_IN locale support in FreeBSD? You can
> > check glibc's locale files from here [2].
>
> The maintainer of the FreeBSD Localization is Hye-Shik Chang
> <pe...@Fr...>. He likes Unicode and UTF-8 very much.
>
> For FreeBSD, it needs time to study about the both locale bn_BD and
> bn_IN. IMHO, I think the best way to add the bn_* locale(s) into FreeBSD
> is you or Ankur Team leader contact the FreeBSD maintainer directly.

I will try to mail the maintainer shortly, cc-ing you. :)

> Sincerely,
>
> > [0] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ttf-bengali-fonts/all/filelist
> > [1] http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/
> > [2] http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/localedata/locales/?cvsroot=glibc
>
> --
> Byung-Hee HWANG <bh...@iz...>
> InZealBomb, Kyungpook National University, KOREA
>
> "A man has only one destiny."
>                 -- Vito Corleone, "Chapter 23", page 322
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