Bug#403404: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#403404: ttf-malayalam: error while opening ttf file with fontforge

[Davide Viti]

Hi Praveen,
I'm bringing the discussion also in debian-boot

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:27:57AM +0530, പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen wrote:
> 2006/12/22, Davide Viti <zinosat at tiscali.it>:
> >http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/rachana_w01_otf.iso
> >
> >please give us some more feedback.
> >
> We have tested the ISOs and faced some major pango rendering issues
> (incorrect rendering of some conjuncts). These were introduced in the
> latest pango to fix bugs in lohit_ml font used in Fedora Core 6 (we
> have tested that font and it doesn't render properly even in QT which
> has so far the best rendering support for Malayalam and both Rachana
> and Anjali  renders properly with the proposed patch). We have
> provided a fix for pango  and hope to get it accepted before etch. The
> bug id is #404727

Your patch for #404727 has been included in the latest upload of pango, which
just hit unstable. I created an iso including it:

http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/malayalam_pango_fix.iso

If you can test it, please let us know if things are working ok.

regards,
Davide

PS: 
here's the md5sum of the iso
1533b6ce907b4bf4bc341b5fc69d5be3
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