Bug#396850: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#396850: ttf-telugu-font package need to be updated

G. Naresh Kumar naresh at atc.tcs.co.in
Wed Nov 8 12:24:42 CET 2006


Hi,

I have tried to fix the bugs. I have mailed regarding the same to the 
author also.

please find attached the updated Pothana2000 font.

Soumyadip Modak wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can do nothing about this problem, maybe you should
> try to contact upstream over this issue
>
> On 11/6/06, G. Naresh Kumar <naresh at atc.tcs.co.in> wrote:
>> The telugu font Pothana2000 missed covering the code point "0C55". As
>> fontconfig assumes that a font covers a language (fc-cache generates
>> "lang:te") only if all the code points of that language are covered. So
>> in the case of Pothana2000, as it missed a code point, fontconfig
>> doesn't recognize this as a telugu font. So the lang field in the font
>> cache is left empty. As a result of this, Free-sans (which does not have
>> complete coverage for Telugu) is chosen as the default font for
>> rendering Telugu on the system. Although there are other (perhaps more
>> proper) ways to solve this problem, it would be nice to fix this also.
>>
>> reference:
>> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/48280
>>
>

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