Re: Droid Sans

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Matthias Clasen (mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 16:01 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I think we want to consider switching to Droid Sans for the default
> > font.  At the very least I want it included on the install/live media.
> >  What do we need to do to make this happen?
> > 
> > I seem to recall there were some technical reasons why we weren't able
> > to make this happen for F12.
> 
> The two main issues are:
> 
> 1) Some technical problem with the fontconfig configuration causes
> Japanese desktops to break if Droid is even installed.
> 
> 2) Coverage: Droid may be ok for the US, and asian languages have their
> entirely separate fonts anyway, but Dejavu is much better in covering
> WGL and Eastern Europe. Droid will probably give users there a miserable
> mixture of fonts

Given #2, especially... what is better about Droid Sans that makes it
a better option over DejaVu?

Bill
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