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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-03 05:41:17)
> Hi,
> 
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-02 20:40:15)
> > > > 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:
[...]
> > > 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?
> > 
> > As I mention in above quote, fonts-noto udeb need to extended to 
> > include Gujarati, because that udeb should only contain what is 
> > actually used - see bug#837926.
> 
> Ah, ok.
> 
> > You want me to add Noto Sans Gujarati to the udeb?
> 
> I would prefer to have such udeb only locally here first, since that 
> would only be a first attempt. Maybe you can sent it to this bug, 
> rather than committing it to git?

Turns out fonts-noto already ship a udeb with fonts not currently used 
in debian-installer.  I now updated and tightened the package: Please 
use officially released fonts-noto-unhinted-udeb 20181130-1 available 
(soon if not already when you read this) in unstable.

@Holger: Can you provide screenshots not only with Noto Sans Gujarathi 
but also Noto Sans Gujarathi UI and Noto Serif Gujarathi?  Then we can 
have Kartik and/or other native Gujarathi readers judge which is more 
suitable (and if any are similar/better than older font use).


 - Jonas

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