Bug#419029: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#419029: ttf-malayalam-fonts need to updated with the Lohit font family

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Praveen A said on Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:09:17PM +0530,:

 > Please don't include this font as it will not work with the existing
 > rendering engines and it will produce and incorrect rendering.
 > 
 > http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Image:%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%AF_%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82_26.png
 > 
 > Shows how the existing rendering was broken after pango was fixed to
 > render Lohit correctly.

Praveen, I should confess that the whole discussion on
bugzilla.gnome.org is dense to me.

Can you please

1. explain what is  specific to  Lohit in the bug? 

2. The bug seems to arise due to problems caused by changing the
   rendering engine to suit lohit. Why should rendering engines have
   code specific to fonts?

(agreed, the changes were made by proponents of Lohit, but what
exactly is different between  Rachana and Anjali on one hand and Lohit
on other)?

 
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