Bug 424701

Summary: [ml_IN] words are shown joined (very low space shown on screen)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: A S Alam <aalam>
Component: lohit-fontsAssignee: Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: apeter, fonts-bugs, i18n-bugs, mshao
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Description A S Alam 2007-12-14 07:40:51 UTC
Description of problem:
words are shown joined (very low space shown on screen)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@dhcp6-62 ~]# rpm -q qt
fonts-malayalam-2.1.5-3.fc8
qt-3.3.8-11.fc9
qt4-4.3.3-1.fc9
libicu-3.8-5.fc9
pango-1.19.1-1.fc9

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open http://ml.wikipedia.org/ in firefox
2. copy paste in gedit/kedit/oowriter
3.
  
Actual results:
Space size is TOO less between words

Expected results:
Space should be reasonable

Additional info:
Test Case with Hindi and Malayalam

Comment 1 A S Alam 2007-12-14 07:40:51 UTC
Created attachment 288621 [details]
TestCase (Text File to Test)

Comment 2 Rahul Bhalerao 2008-01-22 13:58:29 UTC
Created attachment 292511 [details]
patch for Lohit-Malayalam.sfd

This fixes the width of SPACE character in .sfd file.

Comment 3 Rahul Bhalerao 2008-01-22 13:59:23 UTC
Created attachment 292512 [details]
fixed ttf file

Ani, can you please test this font file before I can build it for fedora?

Comment 4 Ani Peter 2008-01-24 12:04:57 UTC
Rahul,

I think its better. 

Thanks
Ani

Comment 5 Rahul Bhalerao 2008-01-25 12:04:34 UTC
Fixed in lohit-fonts-malayalam-2.1.8-1.fc9.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 04:12:09 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 7 Tony Fu 2008-09-10 03:17:20 UTC
requested by Jens Petersen (#27995)

Comment 8 A S Alam 2008-12-12 05:40:16 UTC
fixed with following package:
pango-1.20.4-1.fc9
lohit-fonts-malayalam-2.2.1-2.fc9