Ubuntu
language-selector package

  1. Bug #1945817
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1945817

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Hey @carnage-mode, where did you go? ;)

I have looked a bit more into this, and my understanding is that there are two packages — fonts-sil-abyssinica and fonts-freefont-ttf — with fonts which can render Amharic and which are installed by default on Ubuntu.

But only by installing fonts-noto-core, without uninstalling any of the others, I notice a significant difference at e.g. <https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%A0%E1%88%9B%E1%88%AD%E1%8A%9B> since it makes use of "Noto Sans Ethiopic".

Final freeze for Ubuntu 21.10 is tomorrow, but if you confirm very soon that it would be helpful, I can change it so that fonts-noto-core is automatically installed if you install the Amharic language. If you would like to see more extensive tweaks, it will need to be discussed further after the Ubuntu 21.10 release.

Let me know.