GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 602694
RFE: appearance-font.c: const char *string1 = "abcfgop AO "; should be translatable
Last modified: 2017-06-12 21:02:19 UTC
Created attachment 148303 [details] file describing problem problem: 1) if i am in say hi_IN locale i am not much interested how rendering will look with latin characters. but i would like to see how it will look with native script characters say from "U+0900-U+097F" 2) if i am selecting say hi_IN locale in appearances->fonts-rendering part i am getting square boxes because default fonts lohit-hindi for hindi locale doesn't have Latin characters this problem present with all locales which have default fonts without latin characters i think it will be nice if we make this thing translatable so any l1on can add corresponding characters from his script in this position and we can see same in appearances which will make good effect in appearances motto as well How to Reproduce: 1) logout 2) in gdm select locale hindi (hi_IN) and login 3) see system-preferences-appearance-fonts see below rendering part one should see all square boxes expected result: it should show some native script characters with default font
It would probably be better to do something similar to what is suggested in bug 143775 and ask the font in question which languages it supports instead.
Yes, I have grand plans to fix this...
that looks nice!! let me know if i can do any help in this regards, i will happy to quick fix this since i have some bug pending for lohit fonts which depends on this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540390
Would need to be in gnome-tweak-tool if it offers ways to change the default font.
gnome-tweak-tool does not support i18n yet (or at least many strings in tweaks directory are not marked for translation).
I'm going to mark this as fixed. In the Font Chooser dialog, the user can enter their own text at the bottom. GNOME Tweak Tool simply uses GtkFontButton so this solution is available for any app that uses GTK+.