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  • How do I get Indic fonts to render correctly in Firefox on Linux ( Ubuntu 6.06 LTS )

    How do I do it ? They seem to render incorrectly , and I have no idea how to fix it .

  • #2
    First request a fatwa on that.
    Blah

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    • #3
      Is it different from Hindu?
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      • #4
        = Problem = The Telugu fonts provided by the ttf-telugu-fonts package (version 0.4.7) are effectively ignored for rendering Telugu text in Dapper because the /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts/fonts.cache-1 file lacks a lang=te field. In fact, the lang field is *empty* in that file! As a result, fc-list fails to detect that the Telugu fonts provided by that package should be used to render Telugu text. The same problem applies to Kannada fonts provided by the package ttf-kannada-fon...


        That may have a solution, in addition to confirming that it's an actual bug and not something you're doing
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        • #5
          That refers to kannada fonts . I am talking about Devanagari fonts . They refuse to render correctly on Firefox on a newly installed Ubuntu 6.06 system . I'll post a screenshot .
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          • #6
            Got a link for demo?
            (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Urban Ranger
              Got a link for demo?
              Meaning ?

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              • #8
                Do you have a link to a website so somebody could look at the rendering of said typefaces?
                (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                • #9
                  Hmm. I'm not sure I have any clue about the various indic languages, so I probably can't help answer this much. But, https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...fox/+bug/48326 is linked relating to Firefox specifically having trouble with "Hindi" as well as kannanda/telugu.

                  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ho...cFontRendering is I think the same fix, on Ubuntu's website.

                  http://indlinux.org/ would probably be a good place to go for help...
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                  I like your SNOOPY POSTER! - While you Wait quote.

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                  • #10
                    Thank you , snoopy . The problem is fixed .

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                    • #11
                      Why don't all languages use the latin alphabet? It would make things so much easier.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Bill3000
                        Why don't all languages use the latin alphabet? It would make things so much easier.
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                        • #13
                          There are people using Linux on the desktop?

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                          • #14
                            More than you would expect.
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                            (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                            (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                            • #15
                              I had a full featured Linux desktop in 2000/01. It took about 2 weeks to configure it and make everything work, and after this it functioned a charm, albeit it was butt ugly (fonts, icons etc.)

                              When XP came up, I switched my daily work back to Windows (I still used a Linux box as my server/router/gateway, though) and lost a bit contact to the Linux desktop front.

                              Just recently I set up a BSD box (granted, it's not Linux, but it uses the same X11, KDE, GNOME etc.) and thought, let's check how the free Unices developed on the desktop. It took 5 hours to compile X and 8 hours to compile GNOME (including the basic applications like Firefox etc.). When I started it, I was in for a surprise:

                              - Default screen resolution was 1400 x 1024. WTF is that? Why not take something with a broader consensus?
                              - I used GDM and was unable to log in. Why? Because the idiots didn't import the keyboard layout from the OS.
                              - I turned off GDM and ran it with startx. I set the keyboard layout manually.
                              - I turned GDM back on and tried to log in again. No avail. Of course, the keyboard layout wasn't yet loaded.
                              - I turned GDM back off and started with startx again.
                              - I checked the keyboard layout and it DID NOT STORE the configuration. What the ****?
                              - I started a simple word processor (comparable Wordpad under Windows). It took about 10 seconds to load.
                              - The icons, fonts and the whole desktop still looked butt ugly.
                              - I laughed and removed the whole X crap.

                              I am by god not a newbie in Linux, but there is a limit how much time and effort I am willing to spend into a desktop to get it productive. X is far away above time this limit.

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