Summary: | Malayalam font substitution selection is not proper. | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Biju <biju.maillist> |
Component: | Libreoffice | Assignee: | Caolán McNamara <caolanm> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3.3.0 RC2 | ||
Hardware: | Other | ||
OS: | Linux (All) | ||
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i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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Description
Biju
2011-01-10 00:11:40 UTC
Created attachment 41829 [details]
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Expected Screen ....
Re-assigning to Caolan as this is a font issue. There's also "Lohit Malayalam" and "Meera" as well as AnjaliOldLipi. What do you think the best fallback ordering of these three fonts should be ? I've used AnjaliOldLipi;Lohit Malayalam;Meera for now (In reply to comment #3) > you think the best fallback ordering of these three fonts should be ? > > I've used AnjaliOldLipi;Lohit Malayalam;Meera for now That will be good enough for now... As far as I can tell AnjaliOldLipi is the only font available which will render Malayalam almost correct (yes, it is still missing common single glyph for സ്ത്ര, സ്തു, etc and it is irritating). Lohit Malayalam - missing glyph for combination letters Meera - almost good as AnjaliOldLipi, but totally missing 0D7A, 0D7B, 0D7C, 0D7D, 0D7E Good link https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/history I tried the same text in LibreOffice-3.3.3 (fedora 15) and didn't found any issues with Meera except the issues with the new unicode characters. So I would say this change was not at all required in LibreOffice. For reference: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libs-core/commit/?id=2f70074be979ca4a58e653a561a45d8d75b52f19 Note that it does two things. Firstly it adds AnjaliOldLipi and Lohit Malayalam as known fonts which can render Malayalam which should be considered when searching for a font to use as a default document font for Malayalam. Secondly it sets AnjaliOldLipi as the preferred Malayalam font. Under fontconfig platforms (e.g. Linux, but not Windows) only the first font in the list is taken and presented to fontconfig along with the language and the best match fontconfig returns is used by LibreOffice. Under non-fontconfig platforms (e.g. Windows) we iterate through the list until we find one of them Either way, if Meera *is* considered the better font over AnjaliOldLipi as a default document font, the fix isn't to revert the patch, but to put whichever is the best font to the start of the list |
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