Hi David, Thanks for your contribution as well! I hadn't heard of the fonts-unifont package before. Unfortunately, it looks like "fonts-unifont" only includes .ttf files in Debian 11 Bullseye. In Debian 12 Bookworm and onward, they're .otf files which Koha can't use. For Ubuntu... looks like Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy has the .ttf version while Ubuntu 24.04 noble and onwards has the .otf version. So looks like it'll be a mixed bag there. But it's got me thinking. Maybe we can include the Unifont .ttf in Koha and provide a "Unifont" option in the Label creator as a backup option for people without other options. David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:17:23 +0100 From: David Liddle <david@liddles.net> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Cc: ykleung7@msn.com Subject: Re: [Koha] Printing spine labels in non-Roman characters, Thai in particular Message-ID: <CAP3zdfZuudgKKu8iduK5fs2txnxsJROH6pMosWJwngkPr8YKDw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Thank you, David, for chiming in with immensely useful information! I manage another system with which Michael is familiar, and your contribution has helped me understand it better. (I came into administration of this server only a few years ago. At one point, I discovered that there is a crazy number of font packages installed, and I wasn't sure why.) Michael, if it helps, the Debian package "fonts-unifont" is installed on our server. The relevant section of "koha-conf.xml" reads as follows: <!-- true type font mapping according to type from $font_types in C4/Creators/Lib.pm --> <ttf> <font type="Ft1" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf</font> <font type="Ft2"

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf</font> <font type="TR" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf</font> <font type="TB" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf</font> <font type="TI" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf</font> <font type="TBI">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf</font> <font type="C" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf</font> <font type="CB" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf</font> <font type="CO" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font> <font type="CBO">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font> <font type="H" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf</font> <font type="HB" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf</font> <font type="HO" /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font> <font type="HBO">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font> </ttf>

I can't immediately explain the added entries, or why some of the default types continue to use DejaVu. But if spine labels work in Thai from there, then perhaps the same or similar configuration will work for the system you and Fred have put together. All the best, David Liddle System Administrator