[Debian-in-workers] (forw) Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts

[Soumyadip Modak]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:09 -0600, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:
> 
> > We need people with skills regarding fonts in the Debian Installer
> > development list. Please come on the debian-boot mailing list at
> > lists.debian.org...or, at the minimum please followup to
> > 343446 at bugs.debian.org
> >
> 
> just the bug cc'ed for now.  I'm suffering from list overload.
> 
> >
> > Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb
> >
> > Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems
> > whith
> > Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems:
> >
> > * there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts
> >  and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Bengali)
> >
> > * freefonts are used as default font for Bengali even if you include
> >  a specific font package such as ttf-bengali-fonts ([3])
> >
> 
> Soumyadip said something to me about the situation with freefont improving
> but I've forgotten what it is.  Soumyadip?

Well, I recently had discussions with Primoz Peterlin of Freefonts.
Bengali glyphs are already in place in the latest Freefonts. Hindi and
Gujarati glyphs should be in, by the next release of Freefonts. I've not
yet managed to contact the other teams, as my exams are on currently.
I'm hoping that we'll have full support for Indic languages in Freefonts
in the new year. Shouldn't be a problem anymore then

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