90-ttf-tamil-fonts.conf installed by ttf-indic-fonts-core does not yield an intended result
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ttf-indic-fonts (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ttf-indic-fonts
About the /etc/fonts/
The file 90-ttf-
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<!-- TAM* and TSC* fonts use a custom legacy encoding and should never be picked by fontconfig -->
<selectfont>
</selectfont>
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As an user of Tamil interface in ta_IN locale (which is UTF-8) I welcome this goal ("TAM* and TSC* fonts use a custom legacy encoding and should never be picked by fontconfig") because for long (and still), the 65-nonlatin.conf file, for the match to Sans generic, has TSCu_Paranar font at a higher preference than Lohit Tamil.
Although the TSCu_Paranar font has Tamil glyphs (but not comprehensive), it also has Tamil glyphs for TSC encoding in upper Latin (U+0080- to U+00FF) range and many Tamil ligatures placed rather exotically in ranges such as General Punctuation symbols, Mathematical Operator symbols etc. They all do cause problems in rendering of some contents in some applications.
However the code in 90-ttf-
My attached screen shot displays the content of 90-ttf-
The 90-ttf-
If not, another solution to the issue, is to remove the preference line for TSCu_Paranar for Sans-Serif in 65-nonlatin.conf file.
K. Sethu
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ttf-indic-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 4 19:43:43 2010
Dependencies:
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ttf-indic-fonts