[Debian-in-workers] Bug#370385: [Indlinux-group] ttf-indic-fonts bug -- update

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I wanted to give a status update on this bug[1]. Sunil Mohan has
> uncovered the real reason why the lang fields for ttf-telugu-fonts
> and ttf-kannada-fonts are not being recognized by fontconfig (see
> below). We should relay this information to the font authors and
> have them fix the fonts accordingly.
>
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> Re: ttf-telugu-fonts and ttf-kannada-fonts ignored due to missing
> lang field in fonts.cache-1 Posted by Sunil Mohan Adapa at
> 2006-06-08 13:10:18 UTC
>
> I found out why "lang=" is empty in the font cache file. Fontconfig
> assumes that a font covers a langauge only if *all* the code points
> in the corresponding script are covered. Pothana2000 was not
> covering 0C55 Unicode codepoint. I tried adding some rubbish for
> that codepoint and fc-cache obtained from the changed font file had
> lang=te.
>
> Kedage font was not covering 2 code points: 0C8C and 0CBD.
>

Does this mean corrected versions of the fonts will be provided?  If so
what is the time frame?

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