By default install Noto fonts for Unicode ranges not already covered by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fonts-noto (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
There is currently movement towards protecting browser users from font fingerprinting. This means refusing, by default, to load user-installed fonts, which makes the set of fonts that each OS installs by default even more important than before.
Firefox bug:
https:/
W3C CSS WG issue:
https:/
Currently, Windows 10, macOS, Android, Chrome OS, and, to a lesser extent, Fedora provide broader installed-
Examples of living scripts that have enough active users to make it to the list at https:/
Egyptian hieroglyphs is an example of a dead script the Eoan doesn't support but Windows 10, macOS, Chrome OS, and Android do support.
To remedy this with minimal disk space impact, I suggest the same approach that Apple took. Apple bundles with macOS those Noto fonts that cover scripts that were not already covered by the previous installed-
Please install, by default, those Noto fonts that provide support for scripts that are not properly supported by the fonts that Ubuntu already installs by default.
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.