Bug 429527

Summary:

[ml_IN]: Removal of a glyph from font file

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Reporter:

Ani Peter <apeter>

Component:

fonts-indic

Assignee:

Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

QE Internationalization Bugs <qe-i18n-bugs>

Severity:

medium

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Priority:

medium

Version:

5.3

CC:

aalam, eng-i18n-bugs, fonts-bugs, swgoswam

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i18n

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All

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Linux

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Last Closed:

2008-10-08 08:04:19 UTC

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Bug Depends On:

429526

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Description	Flags
patch for Lohit-Malayalam.sfd	none
Editor Testing (no difference)	none
Screenshot in Fontforge	none

Description Ani Peter 2008-01-21 12:14:43 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #429526 +++

Description of problem:
There is a glyph in Malayalam font file where when, 0D38 + 0D4D + 0D31 forms a
glyph with 0D31 under 0D38 like a below based image. This should not happen,
instead must be giving the output just as the sequence of keys.
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gedit 2.20.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open gedit
2.Type 0D38, 0D4D and 0D31

  
Actual results:
Glyph formed will be like 0D31 under 0D38

Expected results:
Just as in key sequence 0D38, 0D4D and 0D31

Additional info:
screenshot attached

-- Additional comment from apeter on 2008-01-21 07:12 EST --
Created an attachment (id=292356)
Files with correct and wrong glyph

Comment 1 Rahul Bhalerao 2008-01-22 15:18:26 UTC

Created attachment 292524 [details]
patch for Lohit-Malayalam.sfd

This patch removes the said glyph.

Comment 4 Rahul Bhalerao 2008-08-01 09:43:04 UTC

Fixed in fedora,needs to be built for RHEL.

Comment 5 Rahul Bhalerao 2008-09-10 12:10:16 UTC

Fixed in fonts-malayalam-2.3.1-1.

Comment 7 A S Alam 2008-09-19 05:45:18 UTC

Created attachment 317153 [details]
Editor Testing (no difference)

Comment 8 A S Alam 2008-09-19 05:51:47 UTC

Created attachment 317156 [details]
Screenshot in Fontforge

Screenshot in fontforge with new and old file (as per suggested by SE), has removed glyph for which bug filed

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2008-10-08 08:04:19 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0905.html