Indic characters are not visible

[Aniruddha Adhikary]

Ubuntu Touch is not displaying characters of many Indic scripts including Bengali (except Devnagari). Any app or webpage containing characters from these scripts are shown blank.

A quick examination of /usr/share/fonts showed that the required fonts were missing. After I added fonts myself, rendering was okay. I am proposing the addition of the following packages.

ttf-bengali-fonts
ttf-gujarati-fonts
ttf-kannada-fonts

These packages would allow the rendering of the most popular indic fonts in use.
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Other (missing) indic font packages:
ttf-tamil-fonts
ttf-malayalam-fonts
ttf-punjabi-fonts
ttf-telugu-fonts
ttf-oriya-fonts

ttf-indic-fonts contains them all.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Thanks for the report
How much on disk space is used by these three packages?

[Aniruddha Adhikary (tuxboy)]

bengali 263.4 KiB
gujarati 194.9 KiB
kannada 293.7 KiB
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total 752 KiB

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anupam (anupam207)]

keyboard layouts are missing too. I reported a Bug #1500627 long back, but no activity yet :(

[Aniruddha Adhikary (tuxboy)]

I even added a keyboard layout commit, which got no one's attention.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-keyboard/+bug/1525559

[Anupam (anupam207)]

for missing fonts issue, the best option is to include ttf-indic-fonts package

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

Considering that Ubuntu Phones are being sold in India through SnapDeal this is an important bug to fix imo.