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ttf-indic-fonts package

  1. Bug #515607
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 515607

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote : Re: [Bug 515607] [NEW] Unicode 5.1 compatible fonts for Malayalam not available

Anivar Aravind wrote:
>
> Upstream Developers (Swathanthra malayalam Computing
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc) decided to stick on with
> Unicode 5.0 standard due to the new issues introduced with Unicode 5.1
> Onwards .
>
> No fonts fully supports Unicode 5.1 or later as of now. The Forks of
> SMC fonts pointed by Praveen Prakash is not fully unicode 5.1
> Compatible. It just uses the code positions of Malayalam Chillus.
>
> Lohit Malayalam Have partial 5.1 Support. But it is not fully 5.1 compatible
> I request to stick with Unicode 5.0 for malayalam, as of Debian &
> Fedora till fully unicode 5.1 fonts are released

Anivar,

could you point me to some discussions with the issues of Malayalam in
Unicode 5.1 or 5.2? Is it only fonts lacking support for characters or
are there other problems involved?

Thanks