Comment 12 for bug 670758

Like David, I can totally appreciate arguements from all sides and see their merit. I understand that some glyphs which are part of the current glyphsets are in Unicode blocks other than Lat, Grk or Cyr, and are partial only. My reasoning for Unicode blocks is that it *is* a defined standard but at the same time I am happy enough to agree to a different mechanism of extending the Ubuntu font family, such as doing it per script system, just as long we follow complete charactersets.

Ben, it seems you have misunderstood my meaning about 'descending into chaos'. The problem is not with us, the professional font foundry - the problem lies in the fact that in future the fonts will be extended by the community. To ensure that the fonts remain a coherent and usable tool for the future their development has to be carefully co-ordinated. Remember, please, that the font suite consist not only of four font styles but 13 all of which will eventually be available if I am not mistaken. Whilst we will still be involved in the future, our involvement is more in a guiding and advisory capacity.

I am currently working on a proposal how to extend the fonts, which scripts first, where are the resources etc. In parallel we are now putting a spec together which we hope to discuss with the libre folks in regards to updating Fontforge to assist with this huge project.