Package: libpango1.0-0 Version: 1.14.8-3 Severity: important X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am one of the Malayalam language co-ordinators for debian installer. Refering to bug Ref:#403404 reported at debian.org by Davide Viti <zinosat AT tiscali.it> we had faced some incorrect rendering for the language "Malayalam" (code ml) and it seems to be caused by some recent changes to pango. The language has already been activated in the graphical installer of debian currently in testing (etch). But for it to be usefull as a supported language on the debian installer these rendering issues that have been visible needed to be fixed. These bugs were introduced by a previous patching of pango by Rahul Bhalerao and LingNing Zhang to fix bugs in lohit_ml font for Fedora Core 6. Debian malayalam team have been working on these issues for some days now and we have been meeting, fixing and testing some of the major rendering issues that will hinder the language support for etch. We had met yesterday (26th) and finalized some of the obvious fixes that are necessarily required. We also finalized a patch and it is attached herewith. Some of the major fixes that have been patched are mentioned here * Removed Cons+0d4d+RA(0d30)/RRA(0d31) +KA(0d15)/HA(0d39) exception and moved 0d30 from _cn form back to its intitial _pb form * Correct rendering for ZWJ (SF_PROCESS_ZWJ is removed from the flags for malayalam) * Fixing the rendering of LA (changed to _bb from _ct) (We stiil have some more issues to solve) The patch is submited upstream http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357790 Members present at the meeting were: Vivek Varghese Cherian <vivekcherian at gmail.com>, Praveen A <pravi.a AT gmail.com> - Debian Installer co-ordinators for malayalam Hussain KH <hussain.rachana AT gmail.com> - Designer of Rachana font (which is used by the graphical installer) Suresh P <suresh AT ippimail.com> - Designer of Suruma (Another malayalam font) http://suruma.sarovar.org/ (He has been working on pango for sometime now) CK Raju <doxa AT sancharnet.in> - Head of the Department, Information Technology, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram Anivar Aravind <anivar AT gnu.org.in> - Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) Hiran Venugopalan <hiran.v AT gmail.com> - Co-ordinator Palakkad Libre Software Users Society (plus) and reviewed by many others. Seena Thomas <seenarose AT gmail.com> - Student, Mass Communications, St. Josesph's College, Irinjalakkuda Sumod Menon - <smkmenon AT ieee.org> - Student, CEDTI, Calicut Jinesh <jinesh.k AT gmail.com> - Student, Computer Science and Engineering, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram Riyas Usman <riyazusman AT gmail.com> - plus Ajith - 8th standard, ([EMAIL PROTECTED] student), Govt Model Boys High School Sudeep KS <sudeep AT cse.iitb.ac.in> - Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati More details of the meeting available (in malayalam) at <http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിംഗ്/ഒത്തുചേരലുകള്/ഡിസംബര് 26 2006> We know that the pango code for etch has been frozen but since the fixes are only specific to malayalam and it is a major fix we request you to include it, as it is critical for correct rendering support for Malayalam in graphical installer and other pango based applications. This will be a crucial for malayalam support for [EMAIL PROTECTED] project, the largest debian installtion (total 2666 schools and more than 25000 computers) in the world. Regards Praveen -- "Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. `Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn." -- Richard Stallman Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
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