Comment 11 for bug 958345

The above list shows we will have quite some trouble using the new packages to provide the same set of default fonts. BUT, I'm not sure what criteria was done for picking these and if this is still the best set of default fonts.

We currently use <3M for the current fonts (sizes are in kB):
ttf-indic-fonts-core 2464
ttf-punjabi-fonts 202
total - 2666

If we used just the "lohit" fonts, we would still be under this:
fonts-lohit-beng-assamese 199
fonts-lohit-beng-bengali 200
fonts-lohit-deva 134
fonts-lohit-gujr 122
fonts-lohit-guru 86
fonts-lohit-knda 256
fonts-lohit-mlym 127
fonts-lohit-orya 156
fonts-lohit-taml 124
fonts-lohit-telu 230
total - 1634

The question is, is the above an appropriate set of default fonts [1] for Ubuntu? If not, what alternative packages should we use?

In comment #4 Anival implies that fonts-smc might be more appropriate than fonts-lohit-mlym, but it is very large (1842kB). If we needed that package, which fonts would we need from it (we would then have to split it into fonts-smc-core and fonts-smc)?

I am not a native speaker of any of these languages so I need your help here.

[1] one serif and one sans-serif per language was the former criterion