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List:       ubuntu-devel-discuss
Subject:    ttf-indic-fonts and subpackages need to be migrated to fonts-indic and subpackages
From:       Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-12-11 6:25:38
Message-ID: CA+nuCJbPrVHScL2KziLTzsEuDyqNvuhu2HckDfWeBs5GZRO1MA () mail ! gmail ! com
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Dear all


This bug needs some love . Indian Language fonts in ubuntu hasnt uodated
after 2010 . Debian moved to fonts-<foundry> naming and removed all
ttf-<languagename>-fonts packages . Now Ubuntu is having many of these
packages ported from Debian . eg . For Malayalam fonts-smc and
ttf-malayalam-fonts contains same fonts but fonts-smc is the latest version
. But all language setup points to the older version of fonts

ttf-indic-fonts-core having mostly outdated fonts (installer dependency)
and it results rendering fail . This is crucial for Indian languages
because with the emergence of harfbuzz as a rendering stack , and update in
opentype V2 for fonts , old version of fonts produces rendering issues .

So please consider this as high priority and fix it on 15.04

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958345

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<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all<br><br><br>This bug needs some love . Indian \
Language fonts in ubuntu hasnt uodated after 2010 . Debian moved to \
fonts-&lt;foundry&gt; naming and removed all ttf-&lt;languagename&gt;-fonts packages \
. Now Ubuntu is having many of these packages ported from Debian . eg . For Malayalam \
fonts-smc and ttf-malayalam-fonts contains same fonts but fonts-smc is the latest \
version . But all language setup points to the older version of fonts \
<br><br></div>ttf-indic-fonts-core having mostly outdated fonts (installer \
dependency) and it results rendering fail . This is crucial for Indian languages \
because with the emergence of harfbuzz as a rendering stack , and update in opentype \
V2 for fonts , old version of fonts produces rendering issues . <br><br></div>So \
please consider this as high priority and fix it on 15.04 <br><div><div><br><a \
href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958345">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958345</a><br></div></div></div>




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