[Debian-in-workers] Bug#661898: Rachana Malayalam font has false mappings for non-encoded characters

[Shriramana Sharma]

Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
Version: 1:0.5.14

The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings
for non-encoded characters.

That is, characters which are not even encoded in Unicode, for example
0D00, 0D01 and so on throughout the Malayalam block till 0D7F are assigned
a glyph which looks like 00AE REGISTERED SIGN ®.

It is not appropriate for a font in a distribution to have unencoded
characters mapped to any glyph. The rendering engine will automatically
take care of such characters and display them using the .notdef glyph in
the font. Providing such wrong mappings fools the rendering engine to think
that the font actually caters to these characters which are not even
encoded. Therefore please remove these false mappings.

-- 
Shriramana Sharma
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