Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.4] feature/8996-improve-Vi…

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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.4] feature/8996-improve-Vietnamese-fonts-support
On 04/03/15 10:53, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to user feedback on #8996, this makes Vietnamese input
> (added in 1.3) usable in LibreOffice.
>
> As a side-effect, it should also make it way easier to work on e.g.
> office documents that were created on Windows, as the shipped fonts
> are meant to be compatible replacements for Times New Roman (and in
> part Helvetica/Arial). IIRC, either fontconfig or LibreOffice
> transparently uses the Libertine fonts to replace Times New Roman in
> such documents.
>
> Note that this makes the ISO grow by about 8MB (with gzip SquashFS
> compression), but I think it's worth it for improved inter-operability
> and better Vietnamese (and possibly other IBus-needing ones)
> language support.


Agreed. Merged!

Cheers!