please consider shipping Ubuntu font in the initramfs-tools

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Currently:
        # and copy the font support files needed in order to actually display
        # any text
        mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu
        mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}/etc/fonts/conf.d
        cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/
        cp /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
        cp -L /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/fonts/conf.d

Please consider using Ubuntu font, is the glyph coverage is comparable.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

By the looks of it, at least arabic & hebrew are missing from Ubuntu, while implemented in DejaVuSans to some degree.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

One point that was discussed at UDS was that it should be possible to pre-render images for all the strings we need to display, and include those in the initramfs instead, saving space. I think we should look into that here - it would make it unnecessary to pick and choose fonts by hand when assembling the initramfs.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I would not want to pre-render fonts due to
- different screen resolutions / DPI across the machines
- (?!) bisecting language packs and post-processing them

On a side note, I'm not an expert in fontconfig but it looks like /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf never prefers ubuntu font.
Separate bug I guess.