FYI...
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Subject: Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts
Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:18:04 UTC, Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:18:07
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Resent-From: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
Resent-CC: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:14:58 +0100
From: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb
Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems
whith
Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems:
* there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts
and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Bengali)
* freefonts are used as default font for Bengali even if you include
a specific font package such as ttf-bengali-fonts ([3])
To make sure that freefont is not used for rendering Bengali (the same
had to be done for Arabic/Persian), it's necessary to remove Bengali glyphs
from FreeSerif.ttf and FreeSans.ttf. In particular:
FreeSans.ttf: u981:u9fa
FreeSerif.ttf: u981:u9fa
I created a test image which includes ttf-bengali-fonts, and the
following font files were added:
110528 JamrulNormal.ttf
104440 LikhanNormal.ttf
185512 MuktiNarrow.ttf
73936 MuktiNarrowBold.ttf
267208 ani.ttf
123808 lohit_bn.ttf
119116 mitra.ttf
When running "fc-list :lang=bn" I get "Likhan:style=Normal" as first entry,
so I guess LikhanNormal.ttf is used as a default.
I took some screenshots ([4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9]) and would like to have
some feedback from native speakers since I do not know how it is supposed
to look like.
I also would like to know if we need all those font files or we can
use just a minimal subset (LikhanNormal.ttf is ok?) which could be
packaged in an udeb in the future.
regards,
Davide
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[1] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily/i386/mini.iso
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00338.html
[3]
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-indic-fonts/ttf-bengali-fonts_0.4.6_all.deb
[4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn1.jpg
[5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn2.jpg
[6] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn3.jpg
[7] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn4.jpg
[8] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn5.jpg
[9] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn6.jpg
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