Jatin Nansi wrote:
Why not fonts-<script_name> instead of
fonts-<language_name>. For
example, fonts-hindi is also the font used for marathi, nepali, and
sanskrit. So just use fonts-devnagri.
Right, I do agree with that. We really need to distinguish the
(spoken/written) language from the script itself. And some languages
can also be written in more than one script for example.
(Which is why I still rather like the name fonts-tibetan for the Tibetan
script fonts.)
Having said that, using script names rather than language names does
make the naming a little less obvious to non-native users and
developers. But I see that as less of a problem since normal users
shouldn't really have to worry about the names of fonts packages for
languages but just use pirut to add appropriate language support.
Jens