[mythtv-commits] Ticket #3518: Update FreeFont fonts to current version

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Mon May 28 17:33:04 UTC 2007


#3518: Update FreeFont fonts to current version
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 Reporter:  sphery <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>  |       Owner:  ijr    
     Type:  enhancement                       |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  trivial                           |   Milestone:  unknown
Component:  mythtv                            |     Version:  head   
 Severity:  low                               |  
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 The version of the FreeFont fonts distributed with MythTV is an old
 version which is missing many glyphs.  The current release of the FreeFont
 fonts is available at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freefont
 /freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz .

 Currently, we distribute Free{Mono,Sans{,Bold}}.ttf .  Updating these to
 the most recent version would add glyphs for many characters, including
 the musical characters.  With the new glyphs, would be far less likely to
 see rectangles in captions, (i.e. when music plays in a show).  While
 doing so would require a loose interpretation of the word "fix", the fonts
 could also be updated in 0.20-fixes.

 If you'd like a before/after test, the various CSI series use the eighth
 note (U+266A) while playing the theme song in the intro.

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