Bugzilla – Bug 399829
Khmer Release Notes unreadable (missing fon)
Last modified: 2008-06-14 07:26:06 UTC
after installation at network test, the relnotes are readble in all languages but khmer.
The package KhmerOS-fonts-5.0-72.1.noarch.rpm is on the GoldMaster openSUSE-11.0-DVD-x86_64.iso. But, unless you select Khmer at least as a secondary language during the installation, support for Khmer will not be installed. I.e. this font package will not be installed either. The reason that the other languages work that they can be displayed already with the set of fonts which is installed by default. The dejavu font package already supports quite a few languages based on alphabets, in addition to from Latin based languages also Cyrillic, Hebrew, ... and even Arabic. But dejavu doesn’t contain Khmer (and none of the Indic languages and no Thai either ...). Therefore, special font packages are needed for these languages which are not installed by default. In my opinion that is not nice because it causes such problems as you reported. Windows Vista apparently installs around 350 Megabytes of fonts by default, I cannot really understand why we are so reluctant to install a reasonably complete set of fonts by default. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK), can usually be displayed becaue the efont-unicode package of bitmap fonts is installed by default and supports these languages. This may not look very beautiful but it is better than nothing. This bug is a duplicate of an earlier bug.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 156045 ***
how is that a duplicate? the khmer font is simply not installed - WONTFIX, but not DUPLICATE
one obvious fix is of course not even to offer khmer release notes in an !khmer installation