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Bug#661898: Rachana Malayalam font has false mappings for non-encoded characters
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Shriramana Sharma
Mar 2, 2012, 6:50:01 AM3/2/12
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Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
Version: 1:0.5.14
The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings for non-encoded characters.
That is, characters which are not even encoded in Unicode, for example 0D00, 0D01 and so on throughout the Malayalam block till 0D7F are assigned a glyph which looks like 00AE REGISTERED SIGN ®.
It is not appropriate for a font in a distribution to have unencoded characters mapped to any glyph. The rendering engine will automatically take care of such characters and display them using the .notdef glyph in the font. Providing such wrong mappings fools the rendering engine to think that the font actually caters to these characters which are not even encoded. Therefore please remove these false mappings.
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Shriramana Sharma
Version: 1:0.5.14
The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings for non-encoded characters.
That is, characters which are not even encoded in Unicode, for example 0D00, 0D01 and so on throughout the Malayalam block till 0D7F are assigned a glyph which looks like 00AE REGISTERED SIGN ®.
It is not appropriate for a font in a distribution to have unencoded characters mapped to any glyph. The rendering engine will automatically take care of such characters and display them using the .notdef glyph in the font. Providing such wrong mappings fools the rendering engine to think that the font actually caters to these characters which are not even encoded. Therefore please remove these false mappings.
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Shriramana Sharma
Santhosh Thottingal
Mar 2, 2012, 7:10:02 AM3/2/12
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Shriramana Sharma <sam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
> Version: 1:0.5.14
>
> The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings
> for non-encoded characters.
Upstream had fixed this bug in new version (available at
> Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts
> Version: 1:0.5.14
>
> The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings
> for non-encoded characters.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc/fonts.git ) and planning to
release soon.
Thanks
Santhosh
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Kartik Mistry
Mar 14, 2012, 6:00:02 AM3/14/12
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On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
<santhosh....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings
>> for non-encoded characters.
>
> Upstream had fixed this bug in new version (available at
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc/fonts.git ) and planning to
> release soon.
Is this fixed in 5.0 or 5.0.1?
<santhosh....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Rachana Malayalam font that is distributed with Debian false mappings
>> for non-encoded characters.
>
> Upstream had fixed this bug in new version (available at
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smc/fonts.git ) and planning to
> release soon.
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Santhosh Thottingal
Mar 14, 2012, 6:00:04 AM3/14/12
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Kartik Mistry <kartik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this fixed in 5.0 or 5.0.1?
Yes.
> Is this fixed in 5.0 or 5.0.1?
Thanks
Santhosh
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