Wrong rendering of the sinhala font comes along with ttf-freefont.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fonts-freefont (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ttf-freefont
There is a problem in the rendering of sinhala fonts with ibus and scim both input methods. this problem wxist in the ttf-freefont. when I remove the ttf-freefont its working fine with the thirdparty sinhala unicode fonts. but there are some other important packages get removed along with the ttf-freefont like printer drivers etc.
ttf-sinhala-lklug has the correct rendering instead of freefont.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ttf-freefont 20090104-7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 10 09:16:14 2011
Dependencies:
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ttf-freefont
Changed in ttf-freefont (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
affects: | ttf-freefont (Ubuntu) → fonts-freefont (Ubuntu) |
Changed in fonts-freefont (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Released |
Hi Kunchana!
A lot of work went into the Sinhala range in the 2010-09-19 release of FreeFont.
It has been reviewed by native-language speakers and declared quite good.
Download it here ftp.gnu. org/gnu/ freefont/
http://
(Note you'll have to remove the files from the old versions, and there are unfortunate package dependencies.
The best way I know, is unfortunately to delete the installation files from the old version by hand.)
Then you also need to delete font caches. As root
fc-cache -fv
and probably it's good also to do it as your normal user.
Unfortunately it takes a long time for software changes to get through debian and then to Ubuntu.
And... the right place to report FreeFont bugs, is on the FreeFont site, /savannah. gnu.org/ bugs/
https:/
Nobody told us about your problem. I only stumbled across it by chance.
Cheers!