[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#911705: Bug#911705: #911705 [l10n|gu] debian-installer: fonts broken for Gujarati

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-02 15:43:57)
> > Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > > Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> > > > > Package: fonts-freefont-udeb
> > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I just noticed that Gujarati is no longer unusable, because of 
> > > > > broken font (all characters replaced by placeholder, see 
> > > > > attached screenshot).
> > > > > 
> > > > > This seems to be related to the new fonts-freefont-udeb package, 
> > > > > which replaced ttf-freefont-udeb:
> > > > > When I use the ttf-freefont-udeb package from Stretch as 
> > > > > localudeb to build the netboot-gtk target here locally, Gujarati 
> > > > > fonts seem to be fine again (see second screenshot).
> > 
> > 
> > Any chance we can get this fixed for Buster?
> 
> Perhaps someone in debian-in can help answer above?
> 
> An alternative is for Gujarati to use fonts-noto.  If relevant, then
> I'd be happy to extend the fonts-noto udeb as needed, but it needs 
> someone who actually understand Gujarati to proof-read if using Noto is 
> not inferior to the previous Freefont display, 

I'm pretty sure, Kartik Mistry would be able to help here (Gujarati 
translator).

> and it needs someone 
> (you, Holger?) to help generate something for those Gujarati experts to 
> proof-read.

I looked into this:
Font selection is done in rootskel-gtk, and i added a variant for gu 
like this:

----- snip ------
# Set the primary GTK font according to language
FONT_NAME=$DEFAULT_FONT
case "$language" in
    ar|fa)
        FONT_NAME="Nazli"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
        ;;
    am)
        FONT_NAME="Abyssinica SIL"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
        ;;
    dz|bo)
        FONT_NAME="Tibetan Machine Uni"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
        ;;
    gu)
        FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
    ja)
        FONT_NAME="VL Gothic"
        ;;
    km)
        FONT_NAME="Khmer OS System"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
        ;;
    kn)
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
        ;;
    ko)
        FONT_NAME="UnDotum"
        ;;
    pa)
        FONT_NAME="Lohit Punjabi"
        ;;
    si)
        FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Sinhala"
        ;;
    ta)
        FONT_NAME="TSCu_Paranar"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
        ;;
    th)
        FONT_NAME="Loma"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
        ;;
    ug)
        FONT_NAME="UKIJ Tuz"
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 1))
        ;;
    zh*)
        FONT_NAME="AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni"
        ;;
    bn|hi|ml|mr|ne)
        FONT_SIZE=$(($FONT_SIZE + 2))
        ;;
esac
----- snap ------

However, this does not work, Gujarati is still unreadable.
(With the above changing I re-built the package and used it as localudeb
for building a netboot-gtk image.)
Is "Noto Sans Gujarati" correct, as shown above?


Holger


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