tuxpaint for Debian ------------------- If tuxpaint does not work for you in your language, you may need to use 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales'. See "Tux Paint won't switch to my language" in the FAQ in /usr/share/doc/tuxpaint-data/ for more details on this and other frequently asked questions. Whenever possible, fonts for non-latin languages are provided by Debian packages of those fonts. However, some non-latin fonts are now included in tuxpaint-data itself: fonts that are not yet available as a separate Debian package, or are customized for Tuxpaint and therefore should not be separately packaged. For a complete list of supported languages in Tuxpaint, type: $ tuxpaint --lang help Most of these languages work without installing any additional packages. Languages that use non-latin characters --------------------------------------- To use Tuxpaint with a language requiring a non-latin font not included in tuxpaint-data, simply install the package listed below (except no download is needed for tuxpaint-data or ttf-freefont, which are installed by default): Language Font -------- ---- Arabic ttf-arabeyes Chinese (Simplified) ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp Chinese (Traditional) ttf-arphic-uming Georgian ttf-freefont (default font, no download needed) Greek ttf-thryomanes Gujarati ttf-gujarati-fonts Hebrew * tuxpaint-data (Culmus "Nachlieli") Hindi * tuxpaint-data ("Raghu") Japanese tuxpaint-data (customized subset of sazanami-gothic.ttf) Korean ttf-baekmuk Tamil ttf-tamil-fonts Telugu *** ttf-telugu-fonts Tibetan ** tuxpaint-data ("Tsampa Keyboard") Thai ttf-thai-tlwg * These fonts should be provided as separate packages in Debian as they could be generally useful for other applications. ** Unfortunately, this is not a Unicode font. The font will probably be replaced with ttf-tmuni in future, but all the translations will need to be redone for the Unicode encoding. In any event, there is currently no Tibetan locale supported in Debian, which means Tibetan does not work in the Debian package by default. *** Rendering of Telugu is currently broken. We believe the problem is in SDL_ttf and also SDL_Pango (which Tuxpaint will be migrating to in the near future). See: http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sdl-libsdl.org/2007-July/061640.html Languages for which there are currently no locales in Debian ------------------------------------------------------------ Gronings Klingon Swahili Tibetan If you would like support in one of these languages and can help, please drop me a note. Help with packaging fonts ------------------------- If you are a developer and would like to assist with support of one of the starred languages above, you can help by separately packaging the indicated fonts. Please drop me a note if you intend to do this. Quite simply the most fun package I have ever worked on. Thanks, Bill! -- Ben Armstrong , Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:00:42 -0300