Merge lp:~zctgbhu/plymouth/bug-1339954 into lp:ubuntu/utopic/plymouth

[zhangchao]

Add A font file to initramfs to support Chinese display (LP: #1339954)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for this branch! While it will certainly solve the issue I am a bit concerned about the addition of this ttf file to the initrd. Its ~4.4Mb on my system, compared to the current dejavu font that is only ~700kb. I understand that the reason for the small current file is probably that it lacks a lot of glyphs. So I wonder if a) there is a smaller (and still good quality) font package b) if we can stop installing the current dejavu ttf file.

Thanks again for this branch!
 Michael

review: Needs Information

[zhangchao (zctgbhu)]

> a) there is a smaller (and still good quality) font package
I didn't find smaller font，in the fonts that full support for Chinese.

> b) if we can stop installing the current dejavu ttf file.
I simply compared the glyphs of dejavu and DroidSanFallback，DroidSanFallback is missing a lot of Latin glyphs than dejavu. So I think dejavu ttf still must be installed.

[zhangchao (zctgbhu)]

> a) there is a smaller (and still good quality) font package
I didn't find smaller font，in the fonts that full support for Chinese.

> b) if we can stop installing the current dejavu ttf file.
I simply compared the glyphs of dejavu and DroidSanFallback，DroidSanFallback is missing a lot of Latin glyphs than dejavu. So I think dejavu ttf still must be installed.

[Ｖ字龍(Vdragon) (vdragon)]

AFAICS we should drop the dejavu font as long as there's no glyphs required for other locale's basic usage, since it just a boot-up screen anyway.

BTW, is Google Noto Sans font a better choice? It divides many different locale glyphs into separate font files.
https://code.google.com/p/noto/

[Ｖ字龍(Vdragon) (vdragon)]

Hi, I heard a better idea to deal with it from local community, maybe we should install font according to system's default locale instead of pack all the glyphs in initramfs.

Unmerged revisions

1472. By zhangchao on 2014-07-10

debian/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth: Add A font file to initramfs to support Chinese display (LP: #1339954)

=== modified file 'debian/changelog'
--- debian/changelog	2014-04-11 16:01:55 +0000
+++ debian/changelog	2014-07-10 01:56:20 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+plymouth (0.8.8-0ubuntu18) trusty; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add A font file to initramfs to support Chinese display (LP: #1339954)
+
+ -- zhangchao <[e-mail]>  Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:43:30 +0800
+
 plymouth (0.8.8-0ubuntu17) trusty; urgency=medium
 
   * Suppress job-name update notifications to plymouthd from

=== modified file 'debian/control'
--- debian/control	2014-03-13 21:35:54 +0000
+++ debian/control	2014-07-10 01:56:20 +0000
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
 Depends: libplymouth2 (= ${binary:Version}),
          plymouth (= ${binary:Version}),
          fonts-dejavu-core,
+         fonts-droid,
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
 Replaces: plymouth (<< 0.8.1-4)

=== modified file 'debian/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth'
--- debian/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth	2013-12-20 06:29:17 +0000
+++ debian/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth	2014-07-10 01:56:20 +0000
@@ -70,8 +70,10 @@
 	# and copy the font support files needed in order to actually display
 	# any text
 	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu
+	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid
 	mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/etc/fonts/conf.d
 	cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/
+	cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/
 	cp /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
 	cp -L /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/fonts/conf.d
 fi