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Bug 341851 - media-fonts/corefonts: add support for EU update?
Summary: media-fonts/corefonts: add support for EU update?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Low normal
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2010-10-20 05:29 UTC by Sergey Urzhumskov
Modified: 2010-11-02 04:06 UTC (History)
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Attachments
corefonts-1-r5.ebuild.patch (corefonts-1-r5.patch,1.40 KB, patch)
2010-10-20 06:24 UTC, Azamat H. Hackimov
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Description Sergey Urzhumskov 2010-10-20 05:29:46 UTC
MS has an updated version of corefonts at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ec6f335-c3de-44c5-a13d-a1e7cea5ddea&DisplayLang=en

«Updated versions of Times New Roman, Arial, Trebuchet and Verdana fonts that include six additional Romanian and Bulgarian characters not available in the Windows XP versions of these fonts.»

Supposedly, this update also fixes the infamous Verdana diacritics bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana#Combining_characters_bug)

It should be fairly easy to incorporate this EU update into the media-fonts/corefonts ebuild by just adding another URL to SRC_URI (http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/1/8/a180e21e-9c2b-4b54-9c32-bf7fd7429970/EUupdate.EXE) and changing the order in which the *.exe files are unpacked so that EUupdate.EXE is unpacked last.
Comment 1 Azamat H. Hackimov 2010-10-20 06:24:55 UTC
Created attachment 251311 [details, diff]
corefonts-1-r5.ebuild.patch

Old archives with Arial, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Verdana fonts now replaced with refreshed ones from EUupdate.
Comment 2 Peter Alfredsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-10-20 22:17:23 UTC
These fonts are not under the "corefonts for the web" license of the currently installed fonts. I presume they are under some restrictive license that will not allow you to redistribute them unless you have a license for windows?