Irene is the primary mentor for this task, but I personally think this is not a worthwhile task. Wine can easily get Greek letters if they use another font that contains the appropriate glyphs and call than "Tahoma" (which of course violates a Microsoft trademark). There is a number of suitable fonts, and I am sure some of them could be made metric-compatible to the original Tahoma without resulting into unreadable mess... The idea behind the task is to enhance typefaces like the ones found in https://fonts.google.com (among others) which are widely used and not application-specific. On Mon, Mar 25, 2019, at 09:02, Άρτεμις Γεωργοπούλου wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a student in the School of Informatics at the Aristotle University > of Thessaloniki. > I'm interested in the project "Addition of Greek glyphs in Open Source > Fonts" [1]. > Specifically, I would propose to add Greek glyphs to wine fonts. Wine > [2] is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on > several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD, > and is used by thousands of Greek users. But it has a significant issue, > its fonts do not contain Greek glyphs, and its users are forced to apply > registry workarounds to use different fonts than the default ones [3]. > > I set up a github project describing the problem (including screenshots) > and an initial version of my proposal here: > https://github.com/artemisge/gsoc2019 > > I already added a few glyphs (for capital Greek letters ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜ), > so that you can see the quality of my work, using the fontforge [4] > program, which is recommended by wine developers. I have experience in > graphics design using tools like Adobe Photoshop and Animate CC, and I > participated in the development of many educational applications [5]. > I'm able to organize my work using github branches, and I plan to file > bug reports/pull requests in https://bugs.winehq.org, so that the > results of this project get merged upstream in wine, for all users to > benefit from them. > > Is my proposal of interest to the project mentors? Should I continue > writing it? > If not, could I change it to something else, or, would it be possible to > create a new "proposed project ideas" entry, based on my proposal? > > Best regards, > Artemis Georgopoulou > > References: > [1]: > https://ellak.gr/wiki/index.php?title=Google_Summer_of_Code_2019_proposed_ideas#Addition_of_Greek_glyphs_in_Open_Source_Fonts > [2]: https://www.winehq.org/ > [3]: > https://kaneis.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/linux-wine-windows-emulator-and-greek-fonts-in-wine-menus/ > [4]: https://fontforge.github.io > [5]: https://ermis.dschool.edu.gr/preschool/ > ---- > Λαμβάνετε αυτό το μήνυμα απο την λίστα: Λίστα αλληλογραφίας και > συζητήσεων που απευθύνεται σε φοιτητές developers \& mentors έργων του > Google Summer of Code - A discussion list for student developers and > mentors of Google Summer of Code projects., > https://lists.ellak.gr/gsoc-developers/listinfo.html > > Μπορείτε να απεγγραφείτε από τη λίστα στέλνοντας κενό μήνυμα ηλ. > ταχυδρομείου στη διεύθυνση <gsoc-developers+unsubscribe [ at ] ellak [ dot ] gr>. > -- -- zvr -
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