[Debian-in-workers] Bug#523388: Bug#523388: Bug#523388: Hindi font rendering

[G Karunakar]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 Apr 2009 10:54:58 Christian Perrier wrote:
>> Quoting Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs at researchut.com):
>> > So I guess the bug is assigned to the right package, then. It is a font
>> > rendering problem.
>>
>> If the font is correct and the font *rendering* is not correct, I
>> doubt the problem to be relevant for the package that just provides
>> the font.
>
> Initially, I felt it to be a KDE problem.
> Later, it looked like a problem specific to KDE Konsole.
> Then later again, I realized the GNOME apps were also suffering the same.
>

Which version of debian is it?  etch? lenny? or which version of KDE/GNOME.

> So, I'm not very sure where this bug relates to.
> How is it with other localized (non-indic) languages ?
> Are they rendered properly in the KDE/GNOME apps, especially the terminal apps
> ?
>

Terminal rendering of  Indic does not work well, terminal typically
used monospace fonts only, variable glyph width & conjunts dont render
in terminal.

> From what I understood till now about fonts, I guess this problem is specific
> to the way terminal fonts are rendered. Because Konqueror can render indic
> fonts pretty good. So can many of the KDE text editors. I'm sure the situation
> would be similar on GNOME.
> Note: The same localized text, on Linux's VT, is completely garbled. It just
> shows a bunch of white square boxes.
>
> Please confirm, which package should own this bug.

Could you make screenshots with this text
http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/downloads/files/mahabharat.txt

Karunakar