Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Uninstall Unifont (which I thought we agreed shouldn't be used), then
> try again.

And now the HELLO file looks even nicer.  :-)

> And are we okay with telling people to install Noto fonts?  There are
> a lot of fonts in that collection, I'm not sure they are really
> needed.  For example, do modern GNU/Linux systems really come without
> CJK fonts?

"Install noto-core" is simple advice to give to users, and will fix
their problems, so I don't see why not.

> Also, if this is the way we want to go, we should have separate advice
> for MS-Windows users, where there are several system specific issues
> regarding font search by Emacs, and many users are unable to install
> fonts system-wide due to fascist corporation policies.

Sure.  Like I said, it depends how much work we want to put into this.
We don't need to have a perfect list of all scripts/systems, just
some...  guidance...  for the systems we decide to care about.

> That is why I would propose a general advice that doesn't name
> specific fonts.  It is easy to find fonts for a known script nowadays.

Not my experience on Debian systems, really.

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