FFe: New upstream version 0.69 (Indian Rupee sign)

[Paul Sladen]

A new (minor) upstream version of the Ubuntu Font Family is being prepared, the main priority of which is the inclusion of the newly-assigned Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9, bug #645987) which was assigned by Unicode very recently (2010-08-10), some other tweaks are being made to hinting based on initial feedback, but the intention here is to keep the changes simple and focused:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+milestone/0.69

A new package will also pull in an updated version of the documentation for the Ubuntu Font Licence (of a dots-and-commas nature), and similar dots and commas changes to the midstream additions (used to produce the upstream .orig tarball):

  https://code.launchpad.net/~sabdfl/ubuntu-font-licence/trunk
  https://code.launchpad.net/~sladen/ubuntu-font-family/midstream

Assuming no undetected regressions, the technical impact is likely to be low, but the social impact high (Ubuntu would become the first operating system shipped with working out-of-the-box support for this currency symbol; Indian is a large potential market and this help Ubuntu to serve them better.

The Indian government have expressed an intent to universally bring in use of the symbol within a six-month window and this is sooner than the timeframe for Ubuntu 11.04 (six months).

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What's the downside to doing this as an SRU?

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Not being able to say that K/Ubuntu was the first operating system to ship with out-of-the-box support for the Indian Rupee symbol.

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

Right, so I don't think that's enough of a downside to justify pushing into the RC, sorry.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-font-family-sources - 0.69+ufl-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-font-family-sources (0.69+ufl-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 0.69 ("Indian Rupee sign") (LP: #653035)

  [Dalton Maag]
  * Italic
    - Hinting on lowercase Italic l amended 19ppm (LP: #632451)
    - Hinting on lowercase Italic u amended 12ppm (LP: #626376)

  * Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic
    - New Rupee Sign added @ U+20B9 (LP: #645987)
    - Ubuntu Roundel added @ U+E0FF (LP: #651606)

  [Paul Sladen]
  * All
    - Removed "!ubu" GSUB.calt ligature for U+E0FF (LP: #651606)
 -- Paul Sladen <email address hidden> Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:40:00 +0100

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