Re: Khotot Project Fonts Should Have Names in Arabic

[Gregg Reynolds <gar at arabink dot com>]

Edward H. Trager wrote:
> Salaam, everyone,
>
> I recently proposed a font selection "widget" which will classify
> fonts into script categories.  For example, Arabic fonts would be
> automagically classified into an "Arabic" category, Chinese fonts
> into a "Chinese" category, and so on, thus providing a degree of
> sane organization to font collections on Open Source platforms.
> The intent is that this widget should be
> used in Open Source desktop software such as Gnome and KDE.
> Please see the proposal here:

Hi,

Looks like a good project.  I haven't time to look at the details, but 
have one suggestion based on your email.  That is to use RDF, not XML. 
Or rather, RDF/XML.  It's specifically designed to encode this kind of 
"semantic web" metadata.  Ideally, each font (each piece of SW, for that 
matter) would be described by RDF metadata (whether internal or external 
to the font file itself).  E.g., the metadata could describe the Unicode 
block coverage of the font, and optionally the languages supported by 
the blocks.

-gregg