Any effort to fix it before 15.04 ?
This is affecting all Indic Languages .
to be done : ttf-indic-fonts and all subpackages need to be replaced with
fonts-indic and subpackages .
For Malayalam : fonts-smc need to be used instead of ttf-malayalam-
fonts
Packages are already in debian upst
Ubuntu 14.04 comes with many years old font package for all Indic
language. See http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/all/ttf-indic-fonts-
core/filelist
** Changed in: ttf-indic-fonts (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Released => Confirmed
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For Malayalam Lohit would be the bad choice because it is the least
popular font for Malayalam among all other available fonts. It follows a
reduced set orthography. Consistent glyphs with other Indic fonts is the
main drawback of that font and its less popularity. All Indic scripts
vary a lot and
Anivar Aravind writes:
> I am adding Vasudev Kammath , maintainer of Debian fonts-indic to this
> bug . So he may able to suggest better default fonts
In Debian especially from the installer part where we have different
tasksel packages, we decided to use fonts-lohit-* as fonts in this
package
For each Indian languages there are suggested default fonts in most of
the GNU/Linux distros . These came up after many user suggestions over
years . ttf-indic-fonts-core was earlier serving these default font
sets. But many font versions changed after that and many new fonts came
up . I request
I am adding Vasudev Kammath , maintainer of Debian fonts-indic to this
bug . So he may able to suggest better default fonts
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The above list shows we will have quite some trouble using the new
packages to provide the same set of default fonts. BUT, I'm not sure
what criteria was done for picking these and if this is still the best
set of default fonts.
We currently use <3M for the current fonts (sizes are in kB):
ttf-ind
Some more looking into this...
The reason we are not using the standard Debian packages is we limit the
number of fonts installed on the default image for size reasons. We did
this by making a ttf-indic-fonts-core package which contained this
minimal set of fonts (excluding Punjabi which we used t
As far as I can tell the updated fonts are all available (e.g fonts-
lohit-beng-bengali), it's just the ttf-indic-fonts package out of date.
I've updated this to the latest Debian version now.
Also, we are missing the fonts-* metapackages, though I can't see any
reason why they shouldn't be synced
This bug was fixed in the package ttf-indic-fonts - 1:0.5.14ubuntu1
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ttf-indic-fonts (1:0.5.14ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=medium
* Merge with Debian, remaining changes: (LP: #958345)
* debian/control:
* debian/*.install:
* debian/*.links:
- Split out a maximum of two fonts
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/trusty-proposed/ttf-indic-fonts
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Title:
ttf-indic-fonts packages is not updated for last
** Changed in: ttf-indic-fonts (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
** Changed in: ttf-indic-fonts (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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