Re: DejaVu fonts

Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Thursday 26 May 2005 05:46, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Are you sure you wanted to send that to pim-users?

Shut! Of course, it should go to gmane.linux.debian.user.kde. Sorry.

> Are there no other widespread fonts for use? I've never
> been on a system, for instance, without Lucida, Luxi and Utopia. Those
> seem to cover the 8859-1 through 8859-15 well enough (but I'm no real
> judge of what characters show up on the eastern side of the EU).

Except that they are not AFAIK free (I mean, free-enough for Debian). There
was really a long discussion about this on debian-kde list with unclear
conclusions which did not make anybody happy.

> DD is a cartoon character and ITP has something to do with tennis, so you
> might want to speak a non-distribution-specific subset of English in order
> to get your point across.

I am really sorry, it should go to distribution-specific group (ITP is
Intent to Package -- a bug which you file when you want to create a new
Debian package, and DD is a Debian Developer -- über-humans allowed to
upload Debian packages into the main repository).

Matej

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