Bug 459698
| Summary: | [ml_IN] Obsolete Malayalam patches in libicu-3.8.1-7.fc9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | libregeek <libregeek> | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Component: | icu | Assignee: | Caolan McNamara <caolanm> | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | apeter, fedora, i18n-bugs, santhosh.thottingal | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | i18n | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-11-07 14:25:14 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Created attachment 314694 [details]
Screenshot of Actual results
Created attachment 314695 [details]
Expected result
In the description section -> steps to reproduce, Step #2 says Type the Malayalam word : കേന്ദ്രം. Below is the keys to type this word on Inscript Malayalam keyboard. Hope this helps. കേന്ദ്രം -> ksvdodjx Thanks Ani Created attachment 314972 [details]
some testcases
Created attachment 314973 [details]
after reverting patches
Nothing would give me more pleasure than dropping all these patches. On the other hand, doing so gives the output of #5 for KA VIRAMA RA and so on. I assume that the output of #4 is what we want, not that of #5 right ? Yes Caolan, the glyphs shown in the boxes of the attachment in Comment #4 are the correct ones. yes Comment #4 is the expected result. In the case comment #5, I think it's a font issue. Please make sure that you are using one of the latest Malayalam fonts(Meera/Rachana). Created attachment 314974 [details]
new screenshot
aha, I have long suspected that our Malayalam font is crud. That's pretty compelling evidence to just drop the lot and blame the font for anything remaining that doesn't work.
I still have some combinations though in those fonts that don't look quite right, e.g.
U+0D16 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഖ്ര
U+0D1A U+0D4D U+0D30 ച്ര
U+0D20 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഠ്ര
U+0D25 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഥ്ര
U+0D32 U+0D4D U+0D30 ല്ര
in comparison to these similar constructs...
U+0D15 U+0D4D U+0D30 ക്ര KA VIRAMA RA
U+0D17 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഗ്ര GA VIRAMA RA
U+0D18 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഘ്ര GHA VIRAMA RA
U+0D1B U+0D4D U+0D30 ഛ്ര CHA VIRAMA RA
U+0D1C U+0D4D U+0D30 ജ്ര JA VIRAMA RA
U+0D21 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഡ്ര DDA VIRAMA RA
U+0D22 U+0D4D U+0D30 ഢ്ര DDHA VIRAMA RA
are we happy with this screenshot or if not, agreed that its a font issue for Rachana/Meera ?
Created attachment 314980 [details]
Screenshot
Sorry for creating confusion. I missed some test scenarios. This is the screenshot if all the patches are enabled. The coloured rows are wrongly rendered.
Created attachment 314990 [details]
Screenshot with 2 patches disabled
I think that the patches have some conflicts, especially icu.icu5431.malayam.patch and icu.icu5506.multiplevowels.patch. I don't know the exact reason, but if you look at the screenshots it's evident.
ok, well I've long been of the opinion that we've ended up hacking the living hell out of poor pango to get "Lohit Malayalam" semi-working, and then butchering icu to match pango's/kde's behaviour, to the detriment of getting the "right solution" for the general case. So I'm very happy to reset to default icu behaviour when there are fairly capable alternative Malayalam fonts available, and any rendering problems can be directed towards the fonts themselves or to upstream icu and I'll happily backport any changes accepted there :-) Created attachment 314996 [details] Screenshot with patch-5506 disabled This screenshot is taken after disabling only one patch, ie icu.icu5506.multiplevowels.patch. In this case the issues in Comment #4 and Comment #9 are solved. But still the 3rd row in the screenshot is wrong icu-3.8.1-8.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/icu-3.8.1-8.fc9 Looking a big closer I reckon that all the various substitution tables in the various fonts hide some things about icu/pango etc in comparison to uniscribe. And that basically the vanilla icu that this issue reverts to is the right way to go, *maybe* with the addition of the bysyllable patch to avoid gsubs across syllable boundaries. It looks to me that the first major difference is that uniscribe, to me at least, seems to have some sort of extra post-gsub reordering rule. You can play around with the test-cases and fonts at (http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/6517) or (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549818) to see if I'm smoking crack. requested by Jens Petersen (#27995) icu-3.8.1-8.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update icu'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7655 |
Created attachment 314693 [details] Samvruthokaram patch for Malayalam Description of problem: Since most of the issues in Malayalam rendering are resolved in upstream or in font level, the following patches in libicu package are no longer required: icu.icu5418.malayam.patch icu.icu5431.malayam.patch icu.icu5506.multiplevowels.patch icu.icuXXXX.malayalam.bysyllable.patch The above patches cause the word കേന്ദ്രം to be rendered incorrectly. Note that the patch to fix the samvruthokaram issue is still required for icu-3.8.1. This patch is attached with this bug report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):3.8.1-7.fc9.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a OpenOffice.org Writer document 2. Type the Malayalam word : കേന്ദ്രം 3. Actual results: Refer the screenshot Expected results: Refer the screenshot Additional info: This issue is caused due to the obsolete patches listed above.