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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Holger Wansing (2018-12-07 08:46:37)
> Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
> > The UI variant is likely irrelevant: It is a font optimized for use 
> > in UI elements like menus where uniform height has higher priority 
> > than whatever is the normal spacing dynamic in regular texts.
> > 
> > A quick search for samples led me to 
> > https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/fonts/NotoSansGujaratiRegular.html and 
> > https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/fonts/NotoSerifGujaratiRegular.html 
> > which (especially when zoomed in and comparing the largest samples) 
> > show slight difference e.g. in the "middle" glyf (to me looking like 
> > an elefant at a lake with a candle on its head...)
> > 
> > Which is best I cannot tell.  Kartik, we need your input :-)

[..]

> There is something going wrong with my font selection patch in 
> rootskel-gtk, it has no effect at all. Don't know what I am doing 
> wrong.
> No matter which variant of
>          FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati"
>          FONT_NAME="Noto Sans Gujarati UI"
>          FONT_NAME="Noto Serif Gujarati"
> I use, the used font is always the same.

Did you see my comments on that above?  Are you sure the differences are 
not simply _extremely_ small?


 - Jonas

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