Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts Version: 1:0.5.14 The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian has wrong glyphs for many characters.
I have separately reported the bug #661898 that this font also gives false mappings for non-encoded characters, displaying for them a glyph which looks like 00AE REGISTERED SIGN ®. The same is true for many encoded characters also. Specifically the following characters are displayed as ®: Sanskrit-use characters: 0D44 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR 0D62 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L 0D63 MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL Pedantic-use characters: 0D29 MALAYALAM LETTER NNNA 0D3A MALAYALAM LETTER TTTA Old dot reph: 0D4E MALAYALAM LETTER DOT REPH Numerals and fractions: 0D71 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE HUNDRED 0D72 MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE THOUSAND 0D73 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE QUARTER 0D74 MALAYALAM FRACTION ONE HALF 0D75 MALAYALAM FRACTION THREE QUARTERS Date mark: 0D79 MALAYALAM DATE MARK Chillu characters: 0D7A MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU NN 0D7B MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU N 0D7C MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU RR 0D7D MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU L 0D7E MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU LL 0D7F MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU K The following character is displayed as a fullstop ".": 0D70 MALAYALAM NUMBER TEN Many of these characters were encoded after the initial publication of this font. As such, bug #661898 regarding non-encoded characters would have applied before, but now that these characters are encoded, either the font should provide the proper glyphs or should not provide any mappings for these characters at all. It is not appropriate for a font in a distribution to have encoded characters mapped to the wrong glyph. If the font does not provide a glyph for a character, the rendering engine will automatically take care of such characters and display them using the .notdef glyph in the font. Providing such wrong mappings fools the rendering engine to think that the font actually caters to these characters which is not right. Therefore please either provide the correct glyphs or remove these mappings. Seeing Santosh's feedback on the bug #661898, I have now downloaded the latest repo version of the Rachana font. I see that the bad glyphs have been removed. But this bug should be closed *after* that version is released just to keep track of things. -- Shriramana Sharma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
