For Malayalam Lohit would be the bad choice because it is the least popular font for Malayalam among all other available fonts. It follows a reduced set orthography. Consistent glyphs with other Indic fonts is the main drawback of that font and its less popularity. All Indic scripts vary a lot and one design for all was not successful so far.
If size is a concern, you may split the fonts-smc package to fonts-smc- meera etc as Fedora does(https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/smc- meera-fonts) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958345 Title: ttf-indic-fonts packages is not updated for last 2 years To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/958345/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
