** Changed in: fonts-freefont (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720446
Title:
Freefont is buggy and produce broken rendering for many indian
languages
Status in fonts-freefont package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Freefont is last updated in 2012& not maintained. It is buggy and not
producing quality rendering in Most Indian Languages. This is the only
font in Ubuntu as of now supported in indtaller. But this results in
broken rendering. I suggest to remove this font from installer and
make it optional. I also suggest to remove this from ubuntu-desktop &
vlc dependency
In past there was a package called ttf-indic-fonts-core as an installer
dependency to support indian languages. But now that is also removed and
producing Square boxes for many Indian languages.
Ref :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/958345/comments/39
There is a need of better addressing of Indian language support in Ubuntu
prior to 17.10 . The support must come from seperate font package & not via
broken ttf-freefont.
As of now Beta 2 of 17.10 produces rendering errors for many languages
including Malayalam because of fonts-freefont.
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