[Debian-in-workers] Bug#651768: Bug#651768: Further Comments : bug for sans-serif not solved yet?

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hello Sethu,

2012/1/22 கா. சேது <skhome at gmail.com>:
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> i2) But the first type of bug, i.e. selection for sans-serif is not solved
> and is continuing based on my testing with the following 3 cases:
>
> i. Tamil - if TSCu_Paranar (regular and/or bold) is installed then that is
> matched to Sans-Serif still and not to Lohit Tamil as 90-ttf-tamil.conf
> ii. Punjabi - 90-ttf-punjabi.conf prescribes "Saab" for Sans-Serif but the
> match taking place is to Lohit Punjabi though "Saab" is installed
> iii. Oriya - 90-ttf-punjabi.conf prescribes "utkal" for Sans-Serif but the
> match taking place is to Lohit Oriya though "utkal" is installed

These issues are in the upstream 65-nonlatin.conf file (If I remember
the name correctly) Mainly TSCu_ been showed for Tamil. To override
this one possible way I can find is reducing priority of conf files
from 90 to below 65 but as Santhosh mentioned me we are not sure of
the consequences of overriding 65-nonlatin.conf so I've not done this

Santhosh has provided below patches to upstream but upstream is not responding

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2011-December/003725.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2011-December/003726.html

So I've asked him to provide these patches to Debian maintainers of
fontconfig so atleast we can get it resolved in debian.

@Santhosh please provide these to debian by raising a bug on fontconfig packages


Best Regards

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Vasudev Kamath
http://vasudevkamath.blogspot.com