Hi Aurora, and thanks for your report. I see that LKLUG is pulled by default by several meta packages, and I'd prefer to avoid stopping them from doing that.
$ apt rdepends fonts-lklug-sinhala fonts-lklug-sinhala Reverse Depends: Recommends: ubuntu-desktop Recommends: xubuntu-desktop Recommends: xubuntu-core Recommends: vanilla-gnome-desktop Recommends: ubuntustudio-desktop Recommends: ubuntukylin-desktop Recommends: ubuntucinnamon-desktop Recommends: ubuntu-unity-desktop Recommends: ubuntu-mate-desktop Recommends: ubuntu-mate-core Recommends: ubuntu-budgie-desktop Recommends: lubuntu-desktop Recommends: kubuntu-desktop Recommends: ubuntu-desktop-minimal Instead we can use fontconfig to achive the desired result. I have played with the language-selector package and made a test version available here: https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/ubuntu/language-selector The change is not huge. You can see what I did in the repo: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu/+source/language- selector/commit/?id=36d055d1 The point with the change is to make fontconfig give Noto Sans Sinhala respective Noto Serif Sinhala higher precedence than LKLUG. The fonts-noto-core package needs to be installed, of course, which it currently is not for all users. So for a Sinhala speaking user, who wants to use Noto fonts for rendering Sinhala, they can do either of these steps: * Select the Sinhala language when installing Ubuntu. That way fonts- noto-core will be installed at first login. * Open Language Support and add the Sinhala language from there, which will pull fonts-noto-core. As regards snaps, this approach makes a difference with the Firefox snap at least. Can you please install language-selector-gnome and language-selector- common from the PPA I mentioned, and let us know what you think. ** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2000551 Title: [System Fonts] Replace default sinhala font from LKLUG to Noto Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: **What's the problem?** Currently ubuntu comes with LKLUG font for sinhala (si). it's not clear. e.g. we cannot recognize vowel signs and read websites using that font. We can change it manually but such changes do not apply to some applications or application types e.g. snap apps etc. LKLUG (last active: 2012) no one maintain it now. https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/http://www.lug.lk/ http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug **What expected to happen?** We would like to see Noto serif sinhala as the default font for sinhala language https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif+Sinhala [Highlighs: clear (readable), thin, takes less space than sans sinhala] If noto sans is more suitable for ubuntuOS, you can add noto sans sinhala https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Sinhala [Highlighs: clear (readable), thick, takes more space than serif sinhala] **Additional details** Screenshots (see the difference: LKLUG/Noto) LKLUG https://i.ibb.co/nbHM5Mw/lklug.jpg Noto Sinhala https://i.ibb.co/k9dbtYb/noto.jpg If you need more examples or clarifications, please add a comment Random posts 1. https://groups.google.com/g/Sinhala-Unicode/c/LYxuJ44dY3g 2. https://twitter.com/thilinag/status/1598707165920825344#m (LKLUG bug with some apps) 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/srilanka/comments/nzpl9p/change_sinhala_font_in_ubuntu/ Also, some developers already have designed tools, scripts for that problem however many people do not try to find these scripts and switch to other OS 1. https://github.com/IMS94/UbuntuSinhalaFont (developer: PMC chair @apache) 2. https://gist.github.com/thilinag/66577033fafd00c3dfdaa898c2478c79 3. https://github.com/hankyoTutorials/linux-system-sinhala-font-changer Please review details, screenshots and posts. This is not a personal opinion and atleast, i expect to see this change in the next interim or LTS release. Furthermore, please let me know if i can help to speed-up this replacement process To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-selector/+bug/2000551/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
