Comment 26 for bug 2000551
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| Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote | #26 |
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(Get the code!)
> so this is not the expected solution :(
It's the solution we are able to offer ATM.
Please understand:
* It's not an option in the short run to install fonts-noto-core for all Ubuntu users. At the moment that package gets installed as a language support component for certain languages, including Sinhala due to the fix of this bug. We deal with e.g. Arabic in a similar way.
* As a consequence of that, the user needs to tell the system somehow that they want the relevant Sinhala language support. They can do so by:
- selecting Sinhala lanaguage in the installer,
- Go to Settings -> Region & Language -> Manage Installed Languages
and install the Sinhala language from there, or
- simply install fonts-noto-core manually.
* It's unlikely that a package which installs only the Sinhala Noto *.ttf files would be approved in Debian/Ubuntu, since those files are already provided by fonts-noto-core.
It's worth mentioning that everybody is not happy with the packaging of Noto fonts:
https:/
There is indeed work to be done in order to improve the selection of fonts provided for Ubuntu by default, and the way the Noto fonts are packaged makes that harder. In the future we will hopefully be able to improve all this, but in the short run this is as long as we will get as regards e.g. Sinhala.
HTH