[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:
> [cc'ing debian-in and bug, assuming they fell out accidentally]
> 
> Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-04 21:14:17)
> > Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > > Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-03 05:41:17)
> > > > > 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).
> > 
> > That sounds great. I will try to get that built for testing.

Yeah, I built a test image with this, and as it seems Gujarati is back! :-)
(no TOFU signs anymore, but promissing looking glyphs)

I will provide screenshots soon, to give possibility to compare the results.

Thanks for your help, Jonas!


Holger



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