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

[G Karunakar]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com> wrote:
> Hi Karunakar,
>
> On Thursday 16 Apr 2009 14:23:04 G Karunakar wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
> I'm running Squeeze + Sid.
> KDE is at version 4.2.2
>
>> Terminal rendering of  Indic does not work well, terminal typically
>> used monospace fonts only, variable glyph width & conjunts dont render
>> in terminal.
>>
> Yes, I noticed that the choice of fonts for the terminal (Konsole) is also
> very limited as compared to other KDE apps.
>
>> Could you make screenshots with this text
>> http://indlinux.sourceforge.net/downloads/files/mahabharat.txt
> I'm attaching screenshots for the text you mentioned.
> Same identical results. :-(
>

mahabharat-kwrite.jpeg , 	mahabharat-kmail-draft.jpeg -  are quite
fine, the rendering is correct (though font hinting is not good here,
not an issue with font).

mahabharat-konsole.jpeg - this is expected for terminal

mahabharat-kmail-compose.jpeg - is the incorrect one
 In this case, all text seems to be split up,

between  mahabharat-kmail-draft.jpeg  &  mahabharat-kmail-draft.jpeg,
could you tell which one was created first?
since In one dailog text is rendered correct, in second on its all
split up.. a  difference i see is text is run over by spellcheck. Also
set the mail text to be plain text than html, & also possibly email to
my id offlist from the same dialog, to check, or if spellchecker is
disabled does text show up fine?
 Are you able to reproduce same rendering error in any gnome app? This
is basically to nail the problem correctly as to where it can be
wrong.

I dont have KDE 4.2.2 at immediate hand, but will check later in night
(Let me know if you can reproduce same on Kubuntu 8.10 / Ubuntu  8.10
with KDE 4.2.x).

Karunakar