Package: ttf-indic-fonts Version: 0.4.7 Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am posting this Ubuntu Dapper (6.06 LTS) bug upstream to Debian as per the downstream maintainer's (Debian-IN team) request. This bug can be found downstream in the Ubuntu BTS (bug #48280): https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/48280
Thanks for your attention. = Problem = The Telugu fonts provided by the ttf-telugu-fonts package (version 0.4.7) are effectively ignored for rendering Telugu text in Dapper because the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts/fonts.cache-1 file lacks a lang=te field. In fact, the lang field is *empty* in that file! As a result, fc-list fails to detect that the Telugu fonts provided by that package should be used to render Telugu text. For example, here is the situation before the fix: $ fc-list :lang=hi Samanata:style=Regular Gargi_1.7:style=Medium FreeSans:style=Medium,navadno Chandas:style=Regular Lohit Hindi:style=Regular $ fc-list :lang=te $ Notice that fontconfig correctly detects that the Hindi fonts provided by ttf-devanagari-fonts should be used to render Hindi text. This is because that package correctly defines the lang field in its fonts.cache-1 file. However, notice that fontconfig does not detect any fonts that should be used when rendering Telugu text (because ttf-telugu-fonts does not define the lang field properly in its fonts.cache-1 file). The result of this situation can be seen in this screenshot (see attachment). Here the Telugu text is incorrectly rendered, and many glyphs are entirely missing (shown by Unicode hexadecimal boxes). = Solution = Replace the blank "lang=:" field with "lang=te:" in the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts/fonts.cache-1 file: $ sudo sed -i.orig 's/lang=:/lang=te:/g' /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts/fonts.cache-1 Afterwards, you will see that fontconfig properly recognizes the Telugu fonts provided by ttf-telugu-fonts package: $ fc-list :lang=te Pothana2000:style=Regular Pothana2000,Vemana2000:style=Regular As a result, Telugu text is now correctly rendered using the Telugu fonts provided by the ttf-telugu-fonts package, as shown here (see attachment). = Further work = To my knowledge, the fonts.cache-1 files are generated by the fc-cache command. Thus, the previous "solution" is a temporary fix. We need to determine and fix what is causing the ttf-telugu-fonts package to *not* provide fc-cache with the correct lang=te information. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
