Re: Suggest installing more fonts?

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:05:41 +0200 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
>
>> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>>> "apt search font | grep viet" gives me no matches on this Debian system.
>>                         ^^^
>>                         -i
>>
>> gives
>>
>>   fonts-sil-taiheritagepro - typeface reflecting the traditional
>>   hand-written style of the Tai Viet script
>
> Well, it gives
>
> larsi@xo:~/src/emacs/trunk$ apt search font | grep -i viet
>
> WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in 
> scripts.
>
>   typeface reflecting the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet 
> script
>
> here, but point taken.  I'm guessing this isn't the font people would be
> looking for, though, when Emacs isn't able to display most Vietnamese
> text.

Tai Viet is not Vietnamese:

"The Vietnamese alphabet (Vietnamese: chữ Quốc ngữ; literally "National
language script") is the modern writing system for the Vietnamese
language. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages,[4] in
particular, the Portuguese alphabet,[1] with some digraphs and the
addition of nine accent marks or diacritics – four of them to create
sounds, and the other five to indicate tone. These many diacritics,
often two on the same vowel, make written Vietnamese recognizable among
localized variants of Latin alphabets.[5]"
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet)

and:

"The Tai Viet script (Tai Dam: Xư Tay (Tai Script), Vietnamese: Chữ Thái
Việt) is a Brahmic script used by the Tai Dam people and various other
Tai peoples in Vietnam.
[...]
According to Thai authors, the writing system is probably derived from
the old Thai writing of the kingdom of Sukhotai."
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_Viet_script)

Steve Berman