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[4388]1Changes from 2.12 to 2.13
2- adjusted U+0198B, U+01B3-U+01B4 in Sans, hinted U+01B4 in Sans Book
3  (by Denis Jacquerye)
4- added U+27F0-U+27FF, U+2906-U+2907, U+290A-U+290B, U+2940-U+2941 to Sans
5  (by Denis Jacquerye)
6- added U+01E6-U+01E9, U+01EE-U+01EF, U+01F4-U+01F5, U+01FC-U+01FF,
7  U+021E-U+021F, U+0245, U+02BD, U+02C9, U+1E9B, U+2045-U+2046, U+2213, U+22C5,
8  U+22EF to Sans Mono (by Roozbeh Pournader)
9- added U+04FA-U+04FD to Sans (by Michael Everson)
10- removed U+2329 and U+232A because of their CJK properties, added U+27E8
11  and U+27E9 in their stead, fixing part of bug #9038 (by Roozbeh Pournader)
12- corrected and improvised U+0466-U+0469, U+046E-U+0471, U+047C-U+047D, U+0482,
13  U+0484-U+0486, U+0492-U+0493, U+04B0-U+04B1, U+050C-U+050D, and U+204A
14  in Sans (by Michael Everson)
15- added instructions for U+0402, U+0409, U+040A, U+040B, U+044D, U+040F,
16  U+0452, U+0459-U+045B, U+045F to Sans Book (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
17- made italic shape for U+431, U+432, U+437, U+43B, U+43C, U+43D, U+444, U+447,
18  U+44D, U+44F, U+459, U+45A in SerifOblique and SerifBoldOblique
19  (by Andrey V. Panov)
20- modified U+024C to match glyph in Unicode chart, fixing bug #9039
21  (by Denis Jacquerye)
22- made some canonically equivalent characters share the same glyph:
23  U+02B9 = U+0374, U+0343 = U+0313, and U+0387 = U+00B7 also adjusting U+02BA
24  to look like double U+02B9, fixing parts of bug #9038 (by Roozbeh Pournader)
25- changed shapes for U+0478 and U+0479 in Sans to those in the Unicode charts,
26  based on a recent decision by Unicode Technical Committee to only use
27  the digraph form (by Michael Everson)
28- adjusted width of NBSP U+00A0 and NNBSP U+202F, fixing bug #8401
29  (by Denis Jacquerye)
30- fixed several contours to not intersect, use horizontal or vertical tangents,
31  use integer coordinates, etc (by Roozbeh Pournader and Denis Jacquerye)
32- added U+1402, U+1430, U+144D, U+146C, U+148A, U+14A4, U+14C1, U+14D4, U+14EE,
33  U+1527, U+1545, U+157E, U+158E, U+15AF to Sans (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
34- enlarged width of U+459 and U+45A in Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
35- made traditional shape for U+452, U+45B (by Andrey V. Panov)
36- added euro sign U+20AC to Sans ExtraLight, making fontconfig recognize
37  the font as supporting English (by Denis Jacquerye)
38
39Changes from 2.11 to 2.12
40
41- added U+0180 to Serif (by Denis Jacquerye)
42- improved and/or hinted Armenian letters U+0542, U+0546, U+0562,
43  U+0563, U+0564, U+0577, U+0582 in Sans (by Ben Laenen)
44- added U+4FE-U+4FF, U+512-U+513, U+2114, U+214E, U+26B2 to Sans
45  (by Gee Fung Sit)
46- adjusted U+0496-U+0497, U+049A-U+04A1 in Sans to match U+0416,
47  U+041A, U+0436 and U+043A (by Gee Fung Sit)
48- Mathematical Operators in Sans: changed U+22C0-U+22C1 to match
49  other n-ary operators, adjusted U+2203-U+2204, changed U+2220 in
50  Sans to match the style of U+2221 (by Gee Fung Sit)
51- added U+1401, U+1403-U+1406, U+140A, U+140B, U+1426, U+142F,
52  U+1431-U+1434, U+1438, U+1439, U+1449, U+144A, U+144C,
53  U+144E-U+1451, U+1455, U+1456, U+1466, U+146B, U+146D-U+1470,
54  U+1472, U+1473, U+1483, U+1489, U+148B-U+148E, U+1490, U+1491,
55  U+14A1, U+14A3, U+14A5-U+14A8, U+14AA, U+14AB, U+14BB, U+14C0,
56  U+14C2-U+14C5, U+14C7, U+14C8, U+14D0, U+14D3, U+14D5-U+14D8,
57  U+14DA, U+14DB, U+14EA, U+14ED, U+14EF-U+14F2, U+14F4, U+14F5,
58  U+1405, U+1526, U+1528-U+152B, U+152D, U+152E, U+153E,
59  U+1542-U+1544, U+1546-U+154D, U+1550, U+1553, U+1555-U+155A,
60  U+1567, U+156A, U+157C, U+157F-U+1585, U+158A-U+158D,
61  U+158F-U+1596, U+15A0-U+15A6, U+15DE, U+15E1, U+166E-U+1676 to
62  Sans (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
63- re-enabled Latin ligatures fi, ffi, fl, ffl and ff in Sans
64  (by Ben Laenen)
65- made italic shape for U+436, U+44A, U+44B, U+44C, U+44E, U+45F,
66  U+463 in SerifOblique and SerifBoldOblique (by Andrey V. Panov)
67- fixed sub- and superscript metrics in Condensed Sans (bug #8848)
68  (by Ben Laenen)
69- added U+474, U+475 in Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
70- hinted Greek glyphs U+03B7, U+30B8, U+03B9, U+03C1, U+03C3,
71  U+03C6 in Mono Book (by Ben Laenen)
72
73Changes from 2.10 to 2.11
74
75- added instructions for Hebrew glyphs (Sans Book, by Eugeniy
76  Meshcheryakov)
77- changed U+01A6 (Latin Yr) after bug #8212, in Sans, Serif and
78  Sans Mono fonts (by Denis Jacquerye).
79- removed instruction for U+2600-U+26A1 (by Mederic Boquien)
80- added U+202F and set width of U+00A0 (nobreakingspace) to the
81  same as U+0020, space (by Denis Jacquerye).
82- added and improved instructions for various Cyrillic letters
83  (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
84- Changed U+416, U+42F, U+427 (non-Bold), U+436, U+447 (non-Bold),
85  U+44F, U+437 (Bold), corrected U+40F, U+414, U+424, U+426, U+429,
86  U+434, U+438 (Bold), U+446, U+449, U+44D (non-Bold), U+45F in
87  Sans Mono (by Andrey V. Panov)
88- made small corrections to Cyrillic, most appreciable to U+409,
89  U+413, U+41B, U+427 and U+433, U+434, U+43B, U+447, U+459
90  (upright fonts) to Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
91- adjusted bearings of U+410, U+416, U+41A, U+42F, U+436, U+43A,
92  U+443, U+44F in Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
93- enlarged width of U+44A, U+44B, U+44C, U+463 in Serif
94  (by Andrey V. Panov)
95- added ligature "iacute" as "afii10103" (U+456) "acutecomb" in
96  Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
97- made italic shape to U+446, U+448, U+449 in Serif (by Andrey V.
98  Panov)
99- added "afii10831" (U+F6C7), "afii10832" (U+F6C8) in Serif (by
100  Andrey V. Panov)
101- new minimum version of fontforge is 20061014 (by Ben Laenen)
102
103Changes from 2.9 to 2.10:
104
105- added U+0242, U+024A-U+024B, U+024E-U+024F, U+037C-U+037D, U+0E3F,
106  U+1D2C-U+1D2E, U+1D30-U+1D42, U+1D5D-U+1D6A, U+1D78, U+1DB8,
107  U+2090-U+2094, U+20D0-U+20D1, U+2C60-U+2C66, U+2C6B-U+2C6C, U+2C74 and
108  U+FB29 to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
109- added Lao glyphs : U+0E81-0E82, U+E084, U+0E87-0E88, U+0E8A, U+0E8D,
110  U+0E94-0E97, U+0E99-0E9F, U+0EA1-0EA3, U+0EA5, U+0EA7, U+0EAA-0EAB,
111  U+0EAD-0EB9, U+0EBB-0EBD, U+0EC0-0EC4, U+0EC6, U+0EC8-0ECD, U+0EDC-0EDD
112  (by Rémy Oudompheng)
113- fixed U+0193 not showing in Windows (bug #7897) (by Ben Laenen)
114- changes to U+222B-222D in Sans Mono (by Rémy Oudompheng)
115- ported the three remaining currency symbols from Arev (U+20B0,
116  U+20B2-U+20B3), and replaced one (U+20AF) in Sans (by Lars Naesbye
117  Christensen)
118- corrected U+20A5 in Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
119- merged Double-Struck Letters from Arev: U+2102, U+210D, U+2115,
120  U+2119-U+211A, U+2124, U+213C-U+2140 (by Gee Fung Sit)
121- added U+2308-U+230B and U+2329-U+232A to Sans Mono and Serif faces,
122  fixed incorrect direction of U+2329 in Sans faces, and improved
123  U+2308-U+230B in Sans faces per Ben Laenen's suggestions (by David
124  Lawrence Ramsey)
125- added U+06D5 and final form of it (needed for Kurdish) (by Ben Laenen)
126- added two special glyphs U+F000 and U+F001 in Sans Book that show the
127  current ppem size (horizontal and vertical) (by Ben Laenen)
128- added U+2318 and U+2325 to Sans Mono faces, based on the Sans versions
129  (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
130- added U+2B14-U+2B1A to all faces except Sans ExtraLight (by David
131  Lawrence Ramsey)
132- respaced all Geometric Shapes characters in Serif faces to match those
133  in Sans faces again, respaced U+23CF in Sans, Sans ExtraLight, and
134  Serif faces to match U+25A0 (or Sans in Sans ExtraLight's case) again,
135  and respaced U+2B12-U+2B13 in Sans and Serif faces to match U+25A1
136  again (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
137- corrected width of Modifier Small Letters U+1D43-1D5B in Sans Oblique
138  and U+1D9B-U+1DBF in Sans Oblique and Sans Bold Oblique (by Gee Fung Sit)
139- added a bunch of glyphs to Sans ExtraLight (see SVN for details) (by
140  Gee Fung Sit)
141- adjusted Cyrillic descenders in Sans ExtraLight to sync with Sans (by
142  Gee Fung Sit)
143- added U+0242, U+0245 to Serif (by Gee Fung Sit)
144- replaced the SHPIX routines which gave them bad spacing at certain
145  sizes in FreeType for A, V, Z, v and z in Sans Bold (by Ben Laenen)
146
147Changes from 2.8 to 2.9:
148
149- DejaVuSansExtraLight.sfd: changed family name from "DejaVu Sans" to
150  "DejaVu Sans Light" (in case we add a Light weight variant), so legacy
151  apps that understand only 4 styles are happy. (by Denis Jacquerye)
152- added Name ID 16, aka preferred family name, and Name ID 17, aka
153  preferred style name, so contemporary apps that understand more that 4
154  styles can use big fonts families "DejaVu Sans" and "DejaVu Serif". For
155  those, Extralight and Condensed are just styles not different families.
156  (by Denis Jacquerye)
157- added U+22B6-22BD, U+22C0-22C1, U+22D6-22D7 to Sans. (by Remy Oudompheng)
158- added U+037B, U+2184, U+2C67-U+2C6A and U+2C75-U+2C77 to Sans (by Gee
159  Fung Sit)
160- adjusted asteriskmath (U+2217) for consistency with other mathematical
161  operators in Sans (by Ben Laenen)
162- hinted some Armenian capitals in Sans Book (by Ben Laenen)
163- added U+0246 - U+0249 (by Ben Laenen)
164- BUGFIX : swapped U+224E and U+224F, in Sans, Sans Condensed and Sans Mono
165  (by Remy Oudompheng)
166- adjusted U+20B5 (by Mederic Boquien)
167- swapped U+21DA and U+21DB which were in wrong order (by Heikki Lindroos)
168- added U+222E-2233, U+239B-23AD, U+2A00-2A02, U+2A0F-2A1C to Sans (by Remy
169  Oudompheng)
170- added U+239B-23AD to Mono (by Remy Oudompheng)
171- added U+2024-2025 to Serif (by Mederic Boquien)
172- added U+222C-222D, U+2A0C-2A0E to Serif (by Remy Oudompheng)
173- added U+2190-21FF to Mono (by Heikki Lindroos)
174- added Hebrew glyphs - U+05B0-U+05BD, U+05BF-U+05C3, U+05C6, U+05C7,
175  U+05D0-U+05EA, U+05F0-U+05F2, U+FB1F, U+FB20, U+FB2A-U+FB36,
176  U+FB38-U+FB3C, U+FB3E, U+FB40, U+FB41, U+FB43, U+FB44, U+FB46-U+FB4E (by
177  Gee Fung Sit and Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
178- adjustments for Cyrillic in Sans (by Andrey V. Panov)
179- made italic shape for U+0434, U+0456, U+0457 in SerifOblique and Serif
180  Bold Oblique (by Andrey V. Panov)
181
182Changes from 2.7 to 2.8:
183
184- fixed instructions for U+0423, U+0427, U+0447, U+0448 in Serif, so they
185  look good at large sizes too (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
186- added U+FB00 and U+FB03 to U+FB06 to Serif typefaces (by Heikki Lindroos)
187- added U+26B0-U+26B1, U+2701-U+2704, U+2706-U+2709, U+270C-U+2727, U+2729
188  to U+274B, U+274D, U+274F to U+2752, U+2756, U+2758-U+275E, U+2761 to
189  U+2775 (by Heikki Lindroos)
190- added and improved instructions for Cyrillic letters in Mono and Serif
191  (Book, by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
192- rotated U+26B0 (was too small in mono) (by Gee Fung Sit)
193- adjusted U+1EDA-U+1EDD, U+1EE8-U+1EEB, capitals using capital specific
194  accent and moved diacritics to match position on U+00F2 (ograve), etc.
195  (by Denis Jacquerye)
196- added U+20D6, U+20D7 to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
197- made Armenian ligatures discretionary since the Firefox ligature problem
198  still isn't fixed (by Ben Laenen)
199- moved Armenian hyphen U+058A to a higher position (bug #7436) (by Ben
200  Laenen)
201- hinted Greek glyphs in Sans Bold (by Ben Laenen)
202- enabled Arabic lam-alif ligatures when diacritics are used (by Ben Laenen)
203
204Changes from 2.6 to 2.7:
205
206- added glyphs needed for Kurdish: U+0695, U+06B5, U+06C6, U+06CE and their
207  init/medi/fina forms in Sans (by Ben Laenen)
208- added U+02CD, U+01F8 - U+01F9, U+1E3E - U+1E3F, U+1E30 - U+1E35, U+1EBC -
209  U+1EBD, U+1EF8 - U+1EF9 (includes glyphs needed for Yoruba, Maori, Guarani
210  and Twi) (by Ben Laenen)
211- added U+22C8-22CC, U+29CE-29D5, U+2A7D-2AA0, U+2AAE-2ABA, U+2AF9-2AFA to
212  Sans (by Remy Oudompheng)
213- adjusted diacritics on Vietnamese, Pinyin and other characters:
214  U+01A0-U+01A1, U+01AF-U+01B0, U+01D5-U+01DC, U+01DE-01E1, U+01FA-U+01FB
215  U+022A-U+022D, U+0230-U+0231, U+1E14-U+1E17, U+1E4C-U+1E53, U+1E78-U+1E7B,
216  U+1EA4-U+1EF1 in Sans (Book, Bold and Oblique) (by Denis Jacquerye)
217- added basic arrows U+2190-U+2193 in Serif, which completes MES-1 compliance
218  for Serif (by Ben Laenen)
219- added U+01E4, U+01E5, U+01FA, U+01FB, U+02BD, U+02C9 and U+02EE to Serif
220  (by Ben Laenen)
221- fixed U+0209 in Serif Bold Oblique (by Ben Laenen)
222- adjusted Box Drawing block characters U+2500-257F in Mono to fit character
223  cell, shifting them up by 416 (Denis Jacquerye)
224- redid U+0194 in Sans (by Ben Laenen)
225- added U+2217-2218, U+2295-22A1 to Mono (by Remy Oudompheng)
226- added U+0462 to Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
227- added U+226C, U+228C-228E, U+2293-2294, U+22F2-22FF to Sans (by Remy
228  Oudompheng)
229- adjusted U+2208-220D in Sans (by Remy Oudompheng)
230- improved some Cyrillic glyphs in Mono (by Andrey V. Panov), rewritten
231  instructions for changed glyphs (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
232- added U+1E0E-1E0F, U+1E8E-1E8F to Mono fonts (by Denis Jacquerye). (bug
233  #7166)
234- renamed 'Dotabove' to 'Dotaccent' in Mono Sans Oblique to match other fonts
235  (by Denis Jacquerye).
236- added U+200B-U+200F in Sans faces and Serif faces, U+200B and U+200C were
237  in Sans already (by Lars Naesbye Christensen)
238- added U+2601-U+262F, U+263D, U+263E, U+2648-U+265F, U+2668, U+2670-U+268B,
239  U+2690-U+269C, U+26A0, U+26A1, U+2794, U+2798-U+27AF, U+27B1-U+27BE to Mono
240  (by Heikki Lindroos)
241- replaced the references with unshifted ones for both κ U+03BA and к U+043A
242  in Mono Book (by Denis Jacquerye)
243- fixing glyph for U+04ED in Mono Book, consisted only of dieresis (by Andrey
244  V. Panov).
245
246Changes from 2.5 to 2.6:
247
248- redid U+2032 - U+2037, U+2057 based on Arev in Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
249- added U+0195, corrected U+039E, U+204B in Sans ExtraLight (by Gee Fung Sit)
250- added instructions for some Cyrillic letters in Sans Bold (by Eugeniy
251  Meshcheryakov)
252- added vulgar fractions U+2153-U+215F for Serif, made with references (by
253  Lars Naesbye Christensen)
254- added U+228F-2292, U+2299-22AF, U+22B2-22B5, U+22CD, U+22D8-22ED to Sans
255  (by Remy Oudompheng)
256- added U+2208-220D, U+2238-223D, U+2278-2281, U+228A-228B, U+228F-2292,
257  U+22CD, U+22DA-22E9 to Mono (by Remy Oudompheng)
258- fixed misplaced dot in U+2250 in Mono (by Remy Oudompheng)
259- added instructions for some Cyrillic letters in Mono Book and Bold(by
260  Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
261- minor changes to U+2241, U+2261-2263, U+22A4, U+22A5 in Sans (by Remy
262  Oudompheng)
263- added hinting instructions to lowercase Armenian glyphs in Sans Book (by
264  Ben Laenen)
265- changed U+2208, U+220B to match U+2209 and U+220C in Sans Bold (by Remy
266  Oudompheng)
267- added Braille patterns U+2800-U+28FF to Sans (by Mederic Boquien)
268- added instructions for some Cyrillic letters in Serif Book (by Eugeniy
269  Meshcheryakov)
270- renamed BoldOblique fonts to Bold Oblique in TTF Name as originally in
271  Bitstream Vera fonts (by Denis Jacquerye)
272- added hinting instructions to some Latin-B Extended and IPA characters in
273  Sans Book (by Denis Jacquerye and Ben Laenen)
274- adjusted bearings, replaced diacritics, hinted hook and horn for
275  Vietnamese in Sans Book (by Denis Jacquerye)
276- made FAX, TM, TEL, etc. discritionary ligatures in Sans and Serif fonts
277  (by Denis Jacquerye)
278- removed ligatures of precomposed characters in Sans and Serif fonts (by
279  Denis Jacquerye)
280- added U+F208, U+F20A, U+F215-F217, U+F21A-F21B, U+F25F in PUA (from SIL's
281  PUA, probably in Unicode 5.0): U+0243, U+0244, U+0245, U+024C, U+024D,
282  U+2C64, (U+2C6D), (U+2C71)
283- modified some glyphs in Serif Oblique to make them more italic (by Denis
284  Jacquerye)
285
286Changes from 2.4 to 2.5:
287
288- fixed excessive kerning bug that occurs with Pango (by Denis Jacquerye)
289- added U+20AF to Sans and Serif (by Lars Naesbye Christensen)
290- regenerated Condensed faces (by Ben Laenen)
291- added U+035C-U+035D to Sans, fixed U+0361 (by Denis Jacquerye)
292- integrated 255 characters from Arev fonts: Latin Extended-B, Spacing
293  Modifiers, Combining Diacritical Marks, Cyrillic, Cyrillic supplement,
294  General Punctuation, Letterlike Symbols, Arrows, Mathematical Operators,
295  Miscellaneous Technical, Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms (by Denis
296  Jacquerye)
297- added basic Cyrillic and basic Greek to Sans ExtraLight (by Denis Jacquerye)
298- added U+0498, U+049A, U+04AA, U+04AB, U+04AF to Serif (by Eugeniy
299  Meshcheryakov)
300- added U+0494, U+0495, U+0498, U+0499, U+04AA, U+04AB, U+04C3, U+04C4,
301  U+04C7, U+04C8 to Mono (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
302- adjusted weight of U+0256, U+0257, U+0260, U+0272, U+0273, U+0277, U+029B,
303  U+02A0 and modifed  U+028B and U+027A in Mono (by Denis Jacquerye)
304- added U+2000-200A to Mono (by Denis Jacquerye)
305- added vulgar fractions U+2153 - U+215F to Mono (by Gee Fung Sit)
306- adapted metrics of Arabic glyphs so they stay above cut-off height in Sans
307  (by Ben Laenen)
308- fixed mkmk anchors for Arabic diacritics so they stack properly in Sans (by
309  Ben Laenen)
310- fixed weight of lowercase upsilon in Sans Bold, make small adjustment to
311  lowercase omega in Sans (by Ben Laenen)
312- added U+210E (by Mederic Boquien)
313- unslanted U+2201, U+221B and U+221C in Sans Oblique (by Mederic Boquien)
314- added several mathematical relation symbols to Sans and Mono (U+2241-224C,
315  U+2250-2255, U+2260-2269, U+226E-2277, U+2282-2287) modified U+223C to match
316  other tildes, and U+2282-2284 to have the same shape. (by Remy Oudompheng)
317- made U+2234-U+2237 refer to U+2219 instead of U+00B7 in Sans (by Mederic
318  Boquien)
319- added U+2238-223B, U+226A-226B, U+2278-2281, U+2288-228B to Sans (by Remy
320  Oudompheng)
321- unslanted and changed reference of U+22C5 from U+00B7 to U+2219 in Sans (by
322  Mederic Boquien)
323- added U+224D-225F, U+226D, U+22C6 to Sans and unslanted U+2219 in Sans
324  Oblique. (by Remy Oudompheng)
325- added U+224D-225F, U+226D to Mono, shifted U+2266-2269 higher upwards and
326  unslanted U+2219 in Oblique. (by Remy Oudompheng)
327- merged Coptic glyphs from Arev 0.2 (by Lars Naesbye Christensen)
328- fixed and adjusted various Cyrillic glyphs in Serif (by Andrey V. Panov)
329- made fi, fl... ligatures discretionary ligatures (by Ben Laenen)
330
331Changes from 2.3 to 2.4:
332
333- added U+04A2, U+04A3, U+04AC - U+04AF, U+04BA, U+04BB, U+04C0 -
334  U+04C2, U+04CB, U+04CD, U+04D8 - U+04DF, U+04E2 - U+04E5, U+04E8 - U+04F5,
335  U+04F6 - U+04F9 to Mono (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
336- added U+048C, U+048D, U+0494, U+0495, U+049E - U+04A7, U+04AC -
337  U+04AE, U+04B4- U+04B7, U+04BA, U+04BB, U+04C0 - U+04C4, U+04C7, U+04C8,
338  U+04CB, U+04CC, U+04D8 - U+04DF, U+04E2 - U+04E5, U+04EC - U+04F9 to Serif
339  (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
340- added U+2134 to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
341- added U+2080 - U+2089 to all faces (by Gee Fung Sit)
342- several minor corrections to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
343- major corrections to Sans Condensed (by Gee Fung Sit)
344- corrected Superscripts and Subscripts in Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
345- corrected anchors of U+0316-U+0319 (by Denis Jacquerye)
346- Verajja integrated (by Stepan Roh)
347- copied U+2328, U+2600, U+2639-U+263C, U+263F-U+2647, U+2660-U+2667,
348  and U+2669-U+266F from Sans to Serif, and copied scaled-down versions of
349  them to Sans Mono (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
350- added U+20B4 to all faces (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
351- added more minor positional adjustments to U+2638 in all faces to
352  match the other miscellaneous symbols in Verajja, and rescale it in Sans
353  Mono so that it looks better (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
354- added U+2242, U+2243 and U+22A4 (by Mederic Boquien)
355- corrected U+2245 in Sans (by Mederic Boquien)
356- added U+0221, U+0234-0236 (by Denis Jacquerye)
357- added in Arabic block to Sans: U+060C, U+0615, U+061B, U+061F, U+0621
358- U+063A, U+0640 - U+0655, U+0660 - U+066F, U+0679 - U+0687, U+0698, U+06A1,
359  U+06A9, U+06AF, U+06BA, U+06BF, U+06CC, U+06F0 - U+06F9 (by Ben Laenen)
360- added in Arabic Presentation Forms A to Sans: U+FB52 - U+FB81, U+FB8A
361- U+FB95, U+FB9E - U+FB9F, U+FBE8 - U+FBE9, U+FBFC - U+FBFF (by Ben Laenen)
362- added complete Arabic Presentation Forms B to Sans: U+FE70 - U+FE74,
363  U+FE76 - U+FEFC, U+FEFF (by Ben Laenen)
364- added complete Greek Extended block to Mono (by Ben Laenen)
365- modified Greek capitals with tonos in Mono (by Ben Laenen)
366- added U+01C4-01CC, U+01D5, U+01DE, U+01E0-U+01E1, U+01E6-U+01E9,
367  U+01EE-U+01F5, U+01F8-U+0217, U+021E-U+021F, U+0226-U+022A, U+022C to Serif
368  (by Denis Jacquerye)
369- adjusted U+043B and U+044F in Serif (by Denis Jacquerye)
370- added U+2000-U+200A (by Denis Jacquerye)
371- added U+1E00-U+1E0B, U+1E0E-U+1E11, U+1E14-U+1E1C, U+1E1E-U+1E23,
372  U+1E26-U+1E2D, U+1E30-U+1E35, U+1E3A-U+1E3B, U+1E3E-U+1E40, U+1E48-U+1E49,
373  U+1E50-U+1E56, U+1E58-U+1E59, U+1E5E-U+1E60, U+1E68-U+1E6B, U+1E6E-U+1E6F,
374  U+1E72-U+1E7D, U+1E86-U+1E9B, U+1EA0-U+1EA3, U+1EAC-U+1EB7, U+1EBA-U+1EBD,
375  U+1EC6-U+1ECF, U+1ED8-U+1ED9, U+1EE6-U+1EE7, U+1EF4-U+1EF9 to Serif (by
376  Denis Jacquerye)
377- added U+048E, U+048F, U+049C-U+049F, U+04B8, U+04B9, U+04BC-U+04BF,
378  U+04C3, U+04C4 to Sans (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
379- added DejaVu Sans Extra Light (by Denis Jacquerye)
380- Adjusted underline position for (hopefully) improved legibility in
381  Sans, Serif, Mono (Tim May)
382- added auto-generated DejaVu LGC (by Stepan Roh)
383
384Changes from 2.2 to 2.3:
385
386- fixed bug U+042B and U+044B behave badly in Sans Bold or Oblique (by
387  Keenan Pepper)
388- added and improved TrueType instructions and related settings (by
389  Keenan Pepper)
390- added U+04D0-U+04D7, U+04E6, U+04E7 to Mono (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
391- added U+048A - U+048D, U+0498, U+0499, U+04AA, U+04AB, U+04B0, U+04B1,
392  U+04C0, U+04C9, U+04CA, U+04CE, U+04CD, U+04DA, U+04DB, U+04DE, U+04DF,
393  U+04E2 - U+04E5, U+04EC - U+04F8, U+04F9 to Sans (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
394- added U+04E0, U+04E1 to all faces (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
395- added Greek Extended to Sans and Serif: U+1F00-U+1F15, U+1F18-U+1F1D,
396  U+1F20-U+1F45, U+1F48-U+1F4D, U+1F50-U+1F57, U+1F59, U+1F5B, U+1F5D,
397  U+1F5F-U+1F7D, U+1F80-U+1FB4, U+1FB6-U+1FC4, U+1FC6-U+1FD3, U+1FD6-U+1FDB,
398  U+1FDD-U+1FEF, U+1FF2-U+1FF4, U+1FF6-U+1FFE (by Ben Laenen)
399- added Greek variant letterforms, archaic letters and symbols to Mono:
400  U+03D0-U+03E1, U+03F0-U+03FF (by Ben Laenen)
401- added Armenian block and Armenian ligatures to Sans (U+0531 - U+0556,
402  U+0559 - U+055F, U+0561 - U+0587, U+0589 - U+058A, U+FB13 - U+FB17) (by Ben
403  Laenen)
404- redid some Greek characters in Sans and Mono to make them look better
405  and to correct some errors (by Ben Laenen)
406- added U+27E0 to all faces (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
407- added underscore (U+005F) consistency fixes: extended the Sans Mono
408  and Sans Mono Oblique underscores to touch both horizontal edges, and
409  reduced the height of the Sans Bold Oblique underscore to match the Sans
410  Bold underscore (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
411- added underscore (U+005F) derivatives and consistency fixes for them:
412  made U+0332 a reference to underscore at Denis Jacquerye's suggestion; made
413  U+0333 two references to underscore; made U+033F two references to U+203E;
414  added U+2017 as two references to underscore, and made U+0333 a reference to
415  it; and added U+203E as a reference to underscore, and made U+0305 a
416  reference to it (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
417- added U+201B, U+2220, U+2320-U+2321, U+23AE, U+23CF, all remaining
418  Geometric Shapes glyphs (U+25A0-U+25C9, U+25CB-U+25D7, U+25D9-U+25E5,
419  U+25E7-U+25FF), and U+2B12-U+2B13 to all faces (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
420- added minor positional adjustments to U+2638 in all faces (by David
421  Lawrence Ramsey)
422- added U+201F to Sans Mono and Serif faces (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
423- added U+01B7, U+01F6, U+0464 - U+0465, U+2160 - U+2180, U+2183,
424  U+220A, U+220D, U+2329, U+232A, U+2422, U+27E8 - U+27EB, U+2680 - U+2685 to
425  Sans (by Gee Fung Sit ???)
426- added U+2116 to Sans and Serif (by Gee Fung Sit)
427- changed florin sign U+0192 in Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
428- added anchor points to some glyphs (by Denis Jacquerye)
429- adjusted height of IPA superscripts U+02B0-02B8, U+02C0-02C1,
430  U+02E0-02E4, U+207F to match with height of U+00B2 (by Denis Jacquerye)
431- added U+0184-U+0185, U+019C, U+019F, U+01A0-U+01A3, U+01A6, U+01AA,
432  U+01AF-U+01B0, U+01B2-U+01B4, U+01B7-U+01B8, U+01BC-U+01BC, U+0224-U+0225,
433  U+023A-U+0240, U+1D16-U+1D17, U+1D1D-U+1D1E, U+1D43-U+1D5B, U+1D7B,
434  U+1D85,U+1D9B-1DB7, U+1DB9-U+1DBF, U+20A6 to all fonts (by Denis Jacquerye)
435- added added U+0182, U+018B, U+018E, U+01A0-U+01A1, U+01B1, U+01B9,
436  U+01C0-U+01C3, U+0238-U+0239, U+1D02, U+1D08-U+1D09, U+1D14, U+1D1F, U+1D77
437  to Serif and Mono (by Denis Jacquerye)
438- added U+0181, U+0183, U+0187-U+0188, U+018A-U+018F, U+0191, U+0193,
439  U+0195-U+019B, U+019D-U+019E, U+01A4-U+01A5, U+01AC-U+01AE, U+01B5-U+01B6,
440  U+01B9, U+01BB, U+01F6 to Serif (by Denis Jacquerye)
441- added U+0181, U+0187-U+0188, U+018A, U+018D, U+018F, U+0191, U+0193,
442  U+0195-U+019F, U+01A4-01A5, U+01AC-01AD, U+01B5-U+01B6, U+1BB, U+01F6,
443  U+01D7-U+01DC, U+0238-U+0239, U+0241 to Mono (by Denis Jacquerye)
444- added to Mono and Serif (by Denis Jacquerye)
445
446Changes from 2.1 to 2.2:
447
448- reworked the vertical orientation of the Blocks Elements characters
449  in all faces to remove their overly large descenders, in order to fix
450  problems with e.g. terminal emulators (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
451- copied bullet in Sans faces to Serif faces for consistency (by David
452  Lawrence Ramsey)
453- added U+2023, U+25D8, U+25E6, and U+29EB to all faces (by David
454  Lawrence Ramsey)
455- added U+1EB8, U+1EB9, U+1ECA - U+1ECD, U+1EE4, U+1EE5 (by Tim May)
456- added U+01DD, U+02BE, U+02BF, U+02D3 to all, changed U+02D2 in
457  non-Condensed and U+1EE5 in Serif (by Tim May)
458- fixed U+01CE, replacing wrong circumflex by caron (by Denis Jacquerye)
459- added anchor points to some glyphs (by Denis Jacquerye)
460- added U+20B5 (by Denis Jacquerye)
461- added U+0181 - U+0183, U+0187, U+0188, U+018A - U+018D, U+0191,
462  U+0193, U+0195 - U+019B, U+019D, U+019E, U+01A4, U+01A7 - U+01A9, U+01AB -
463  U+01AE, U+01B1, U+01B5, U+01B6, U+01BB, U+01C0 - U+01C3, U+01F1 - U+01F3,
464  U+0238, U+0239, U+1D02, U+1D08, U+1D09, U+1D14, U+1D1F, U+1D77, U+2103,
465  U+2126, U+2127, U+212A, U+212B, U+2132, U+214B, U+2210, U+2217, U+2218,
466  U+2A0C - U+2A0E, U+FB00, U+FB03 and U+FB04 to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
467- added U+01A9, U+01C3 and U+2126 to Mono and Serif (by Gee Fung Sit)
468- adjusted bearings of U+028B in Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
469- added U+018F, U+0494-U+0497, U+04A0-U+04A7, U+04AC-U+04AF,
470  U+04B4-U+04B7, U+04BA-U+04BB, U+04C1-U+04C2, U+04C5-U+04C8, U+04CB-U+04CC,
471  U+04D0-U+04D9, U+04DC-U+04DD, U+04E6-U+04EB to Sans (by Eugeniy
472  Meshcheryakov)
473- replaced with references U+0391-U+0393, U+0395-U+0397, U+0399, U+039A,
474  U+039C, U+039D, U+039F-U+03A1, U+03A4, U+03A5, U+03A7, U+03BF, U+03DC,
475  U+0405, U+0406, U+0408, U+0410, U+0412, U+0415, U+0417, U+041A,
476  U+041C-U+041E, U+0420-U+0422, U+0425, U+0430, U+0435, U+043E, U+0440,
477  U+0441, U+0443, U+0445, U+0455-U+0458 in Serif and Mono (by Eugeniy
478  Meshcheryakov)
479- added U+04D0-U+04D7, U+04E6-U+04EB to Serif (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
480- added U+212A and U+212B to the rest of the faces (by Lars Naesbye
481  Christensen)
482- added U+2318 and U+2325 to Sans and Serif (by Lars Naesbye Christensen)
483- added and improved TrueType instructions and related settings (by
484  Keenan Pepper)
485- completed basic Greek alphabet: added U+0374-U+0375, U+037A, U+037E,
486  U+0384-U+038A, U+038C, U+038E-U+0390, U+03AC-U+03BF, U+03C1-U+03CE (by Ben
487  Laenen)
488- added U+2070 and U+2074-U+2079 (by Mederic Boquien)
489
490Changes from 2.0 to 2.1:
491
492*** Be aware that names of some TTF files changed since version 2.0. ***
493
494- added U+0323, U+1E0C, U+1E0D, U+1E24, U+1E25, U+1E36 - U+1E39, U+1E42,
495  U+1E43, U+1E46, U+1E47, U+1E5A - U+1E5D, U+1E62, U+1E63, U+1E6C, U+1E6D,
496  U+1E7E, U+1E7F (by Tim May)
497- fixed bug where GNOME applications used Mono Bold Oblique instead of
498  Mono Oblique (by Keenan Pepper)
499- added and improved TrueType instructions and related settings (by
500  Keenan Pepper)
501- added U+1E41, U+1E57, U+1E61 (by Sander Vesik)
502- added U+0189, U+0309, U+0313, U+0314, U+031A, U+031B, U+0327, U+0328,
503  U+032B, U+0333, U+033C (by Denis Jacquerye)
504- adjusted and fixed U+0186, U+0254, U+0291, U+0316 - U+0319, U+031C -
505  U+0320, U+0323 - U+0326, U+0329 - U+032A, U+032C - U+0332, U+0339 - U+033B,
506  U+033E, U+033F (by Denis Jacquerye)
507- fixed U+1E12, U+1E3C, U+1E4A, U+1E70 to have normal below diacritics
508  (by Denis Jacquerye)
509- fixed U+1E82, U+1E84 and U+1EF2 to have uppercase above diacritics (by
510  Denis Jacquerye)
511- added anchor points to some glyphs (by Denis Jacquerye)
512- dropped "-Roman" from font names - affects both internal TTF names and
513  names of generated files (by Stepan Roh)
514- attempt to fix bug Vertical spacing too big for Mono by exchanging
515  LineGap and OS2TypoLinegap values (proofed by Stefan Rank)
516- added Greek capitals U+0391 - U+03A1, U+03A3 - U+03A9, U+03AA, U+03AB
517  in Mono (by Ben Laenen)
518- added the per ten thousand sign U+2031 (by Mederic Boquien)
519- added U+2207, U+221D, U+221F, U+2227 - U+222A, and U+2261 (by David
520  Lawrence Ramsey)
521- new logo (by Gee Fung Sit)
522- added U+0180, U+018E, U+201F, U+2024, U+2025, U+203D, U+2200, U+2203,
523  U+2213, U+222C, U+222D, U+2263 to Sans (by Gee Fung Sit)
524
525Changes from 1.15 to 2.0:
526
527- "Italized" basic glyphs in all Serif Oblique and their Condensed faces
528  (by David Jez)
529- added and improved TrueType instructions and related settings (by Keenan
530  Pepper)
531- added anchor points to some glyphs (by Denis Jacquerye)
532- many new spacing and combining accents (by Denis Jacquerye)
533- smart substitutions for transforming i and j to dottless form and for
534  using uppercase diacritics (by Denis Jacquerye)
535- fixed remaining erroneously slanted characters in Serif Oblique faces (by
536  David Lawrence Ramsey)
537- copied bullet in Sans faces to Sans Oblique faces for consistency (by
538  David Lawrence Ramsey)
539- added U+203C and U+2047-U+2049 (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
540- added Greek glyphs to Serif (by Ben Laenen, Condensed merge by David Jez)
541- fixed bug LTR glyphs behaving like RTL (by Ben Laenen)
542- fixed wrong glyph directions (by David Jez)
543- fixed repositioned accents in Condensed faces (by David Jez)
544
545Changes from 1.14 to 1.15:
546
547- added and improved TrueType instructions and related settings (by Keenan
548  Pepper)
549- fixed U+2302, U+2319 (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
550- fixed yet another monospace bug (by Stepan Roh)
551- fixed potential "too big ascender/descender" bug (by Stepan Roh)
552- fixed U+026E and U+028E (by Denis Jacquerye)
553- added U+0186, U+0190, U+0300 - U+0304, U+0306 - U+0308, U+030A - U+030C,
554  U+0321, U+0322 (by Denis Jacquerye)
555- added rest of Block Elements: U+2591 - U+2593 (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
556- added U+2311, U+237D and U+2638 (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
557- added U+01CD - U+01D4 (by Denis Jacquerye)
558- fixed accents of U+00F2 - U+00F6 by replacing them with references in Mono
559  Bold (by David Jez)
560- added U+0490, U+0491 (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
561- added hints to U+0404 and U+0454 in Sans (by Eugeniy Meshcheryakov)
562- completed Greek glyphs from U+0370 to U+03CF in Serif (by Ben Laenen)
563- fixed shape of U+0255 in Sans Bold and Sans Bold Oblique (by Denis
564  Jacquerye)
565
566Changes from 1.13 to 1.14:
567
568- fixed bug where Mono faces were not recognized as fixed pitch in Windows
569  by correcting Venda glyphs (by David Jez)
570- added and improved TrueType instructions (by Keenan Pepper)
571- added 6 Uzbekian glyphs (by Mashrab Kuvatov)
572- added Greek glyphs to Sans and Serif, changed pi and omega to fit in (by
573  Ben Laenen)
574- added IPA and related superscript glyphs (by Denis Jacquerye)
575- fixed buggy Venda glyphs (by David Lawrence Ramsey and Stepan Roh)
576- added U+2302, U+2310, U+2319 (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
577- fixed slanted U+00AC in Serif Oblique faces (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
578- added 29 glyphs from Block Elements (by David Lawrence Ramsey)
579
580Changes from 1.12 to 1.13:
581
582- removed all stems (PS hints) (requested by David Jez)
583- added U+01D6, U+01DF, U+022B, U+022D and U+0231 (by Sander Vesik)
584- added 10 Venda glyphs (by Dwayne Bailey)
585- fixed bug when fonts had no name on Microsoft Windows (by Stepan Roh)
586- updated 'missing' glyph U+FFFD (by David Jez)
587- set TTF flag fsType to 'Installable Embedding' (= unrestricted usage)
588  (idea by C. Tiffany)
589
590Changes from 1.11 to 1.12:
591
592- added long s (by James Cloos)
593- prettier comma accent in gcommaaccent (by David Jez)
594- added Hbar, hbar, kgreenlandic, napostrophe, Eng, eng, Tbar, tbar,
595  afii57929 (by David Jez)
596- changed Iogonek, iogonek, IJ, ij to look better (by David Jez)
597- glyph uni0237 renamed to dotlessj (requested by David Jez)
598- fixed accents for dcaron, lcaron, tcaron, Uogonek, uogonek in Serif (by
599  David Jez)
600- added U+2500 - U+257F box drawing glyphs to Sans Mono (by David Jez)
601- fixed accents in Wcircumflex, Ycircumflex and Zdotaccent (by David Jez)
602- extra kerning for F (by Sander Vesik)
603- added 'missing' glyph U+FFFD (by David Jez)
604
605Changes from 1.10 to 1.11:
606
607- kerning updates (by Sander Vesik)
608- added Iogonek, iogonek, IJ, ij, Uogonek, uogonek (from SuSE standard fonts
609  by Adrian Schroeter, SuSE AG)
610- added Gcommaaccent, gcommaaccent, Kcommaaccent, kcommaaccent,
611  Lcommaaccent, lcommaaccent, Ncommaaccent, ncommaaccent, Rcommaaccent,
612  rcommaaccent (by Stepan Roh)
613
614Changes from 1.9 to 1.10:
615
616- added U+022E, U+022F (by Sander Vesik)
617- kerning updates for DejaVu Sans (by Sander Vesik)
618- fixed too wide cyrillic glyphs in DejaVu Sans Mono (by Valentin Stoykov)
619- fixed ligatures bug in Mono (by Stepan Roh)
620
621Changes from 1.8 to 1.9:
622
623- integrated Arev Cyrillics (by Danilo Segan)
624- added U+01EA, U+01EB, U+01EC, U+01ED (by Sander Vesik)
625
626Changes from 1.7 to 1.8:
627
628- fixed accents in Serif Oblique and Serif Bold Oblique (by Stepan Roh)
629
630Changes from 1.6 to 1.7:
631
632- added automatically generated Condensed typefaces (by Stepan Roh)
633
634Changes from 1.5 to 1.6:
635
636- monospace bug fixed (by Stepan Roh)
637- incorrect Bitstream foundry assigned by fontconfig and KDE Font Installer
638fixed (by Stepan Roh)
639- added automatically generated Oblique version of Serif typefaces (by
640Stepan Roh)
641- corrected cyrillic D and d (by Danilo Segan and David Jez)
642- fixed accents position in Oblique version of Serif typefaces (by Danilo
643Segan and Sander Vesik)
644- fixed incorrect computation of OS2Win* fields (by Stepan Roh)
645- added visiblespace U+2423 (by David Jez)
646- fixed 'line height' bug by fixing ascender and descender values (by David
647Jez and Stepan Roh)
648- fixed part of 'worse than Vera' bug (by Peter Cernak)
649- smaller comma accent U+0326 (by David Jez)
650
651Changes from 1.4 to 1.5:
652
653- added Cyrillics (96 characters) and Dcroat to the rest of typefaces (by
654Danilo Segan)
655- fixed bugs in some Cyrillic characters, some of them reported by Sander
656Vesik (by Danilo Segan)
657- added U+0100, U+0101, U+0112, U+0113, U+012A, U+012B, U+014C, U+014D,
658U+016A, U+016B, U+01E2, U+01E3, U+0232 and U+0233 (by Sander Vesik)
659- added Romanian characters (by Misu Moldovan)
660- added U+0108, U+0109, U+010A, U+010B, U+0114, U+0115, U+0116, U+0117,
661U+011C, U+011D, U+0120, U+0121, U+0124, U+0125, U+0128, U+0129, U+012C,
662U+012D, U+0134, U+0135, U+014E, U+014F, U+0150, U+0151, U+015C, U+015D,
663U+0168, U+0169, U+016C, U+016D, U+0170, U+0171 and U+0237 (by James
664Crippen)
665- added U+02BB, U+2010, U+2011, U+2012 and U+2015 (by Stepan Roh)
666
667Changes from 1.3 to 1.4:
668
669- added Polish characters (Aogonek, aogonek, Eogonek, eogonek, Nacute,
670nacute, Sacute, sacute, Zacute, zacute, Zdotaccent, zdotaccent) (by Stepan
671Roh)
672
673Changes from 1.2 to 1.3:
674
675- added Cyrillics (96 characters) and Dcroat to Sans typefaces (by Danilo
676Segan from his BePa fonts)
677
678Changes from 1.1 to 1.2:
679
680- added Ldot, ldot, Wcircumflex, wcircumflex, Ycircumflex, ycircumflex,
681  Wgrave, wgrave, Wacute, wacute, Wdieresis, wdieresis, Ygrave and ygrave
682  (from The Olwen Font Family 0.2 by Dafydd Harries)
683
684Changes from 1.0 to 1.1:
685
686- added Lacute, lacute, Lcaron, lcaron, Racute and racute (by Peter Cernak)
687
688Changes from 0.9.4 to 1.0:
689
690- none, just changed version and updated README
691
692Changes from 0.9.3 to 0.9.4:
693
694- fixed TTF generation (kerning tables were missing)
695
696Changes from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3:
697
698- kerning of added characters
699- proper caron shape for dcaron in Mono (by Ondrej Koala Vacha)
700- minor visual changes
701
702Changes from 0.9.1 to 0.9.2:
703
704- internal bugged version
705
706Changes from 0.9 to 0.9.1:
707
708- proper caron shape for dcaron and tcaron
709- minor visual changes
710
711$Id: NEWS 1388 2006-12-17 11:20:45Z moyogo $
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