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Bug#343446: marked as done ([g-i] Missing Bengali fonts)

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and subject line [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts
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Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb

Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems
whith
Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems:

* there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts
  and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Bengali)

* freefonts are used as default font for Bengali even if you include
  a specific font package such as ttf-bengali-fonts ([3])

To make sure that freefont is not used for rendering Bengali (the same
had to be done for Arabic/Persian), it's necessary to remove Bengali glyphs
from FreeSerif.ttf and FreeSans.ttf. In particular:

FreeSans.ttf:  u981:u9fa
FreeSerif.ttf: u981:u9fa

I created a test image which includes ttf-bengali-fonts, and the
following font files were added:

110528  JamrulNormal.ttf
104440  LikhanNormal.ttf
185512  MuktiNarrow.ttf
 73936  MuktiNarrowBold.ttf
267208  ani.ttf
123808  lohit_bn.ttf
119116  mitra.ttf

When running "fc-list :lang=bn" I get "Likhan:style=Normal" as first entry,
so I guess LikhanNormal.ttf is used as a default.
I took some screenshots ([4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9]) and would like to have
some feedback from native speakers since I do not know how it is supposed
to look like.

I also would like to know if we need all those font files or we can
use just a minimal subset (LikhanNormal.ttf is ok?) which could be
packaged in an udeb in the future.

regards,
Davide

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[1] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily/i386/mini.iso
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00338.html
[3] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-indic-fonts/ttf-bengali-fonts_0.4.6_all.deb

[4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn1.jpg
[5] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn2.jpg
[6] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn3.jpg
[7] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn4.jpg
[8] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn5.jpg
[9] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/shots/bn6.jpg

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Problem is fixed and Bengali fonts are now taken from freefont.
More details about fonts inside g-i can be found here:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUIFonts

regards,
Davide

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