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tuxpaint for Debian
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If tuxpaint does not work for you in your language, you may need to
use 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales'. See "Tux Paint won't switch to my
language" in the FAQ in /usr/share/doc/tuxpaint-data/ for more details
on this and other frequently asked questions.
Whenever possible, fonts for non-latin languages are provided by Debian
packages of those fonts. However, some non-latin fonts are now included
in tuxpaint-data itself: fonts that are not yet available as a separate
Debian package, or are customized for Tuxpaint and therefore should not
be separately packaged.
For a complete list of supported languages in Tuxpaint, type:
$ tuxpaint --lang help
Most of these languages work without installing any additional packages.
Languages that use non-latin characters
---------------------------------------
To use Tuxpaint with a language requiring a non-latin font not included
in tuxpaint-data, simply install the package listed below (except no
download is needed for tuxpaint-data or ttf-freefont, which are installed
by default):
Language Font
-------- ----
Arabic ttf-arabeyes
Chinese (Simplified) ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
Chinese (Traditional) ttf-arphic-uming
Georgian ttf-freefont (default font, no download needed)
Greek ttf-thryomanes
Gujarati ttf-gujarati-fonts
Hebrew * tuxpaint-data (Culmus "Nachlieli")
Hindi * tuxpaint-data ("Raghu")
Japanese tuxpaint-data (customized subset of sazanami-gothic.ttf)
Korean ttf-baekmuk
Tamil ttf-tamil-fonts
Telugu *** ttf-telugu-fonts
Tibetan ** tuxpaint-data ("Tsampa Keyboard")
Thai ttf-thai-tlwg
* These fonts should be provided as separate packages in Debian as they could
be generally useful for other applications.
** Unfortunately, this is not a Unicode font. The font will probably be replaced
with ttf-tmuni in future, but all the translations will need to be redone for
the Unicode encoding.
In any event, there is currently no Tibetan locale supported in Debian, which
means Tibetan does not work in the Debian package by default.
*** Rendering of Telugu is currently broken. We believe the problem is in
SDL_ttf and also SDL_Pango (which Tuxpaint will be migrating to in
the near future). See:
http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2007-July/061640.html
Languages for which there are currently no locales in Debian
------------------------------------------------------------
Gronings
Klingon
Swahili
Tibetan
If you would like support in one of these languages and can help, please drop
me a note.
Help with packaging fonts
-------------------------
If you are a developer and would like to assist with support of one of the
starred languages above, you can help by separately packaging the indicated
fonts. Please drop me a note if you intend to do this.
Quite simply the most fun package I have ever worked on. Thanks, Bill!
-- Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>, Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:00:42 -0300
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