Bug 961298
| Summary: | [hi_IN] Gnu free fonts rendering issues in gnome-shell | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Pravin Satpute <psatpute> | ||||
| Component: | gnu-free-fonts | Assignee: | Gwyn Ciesla <gwync> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | fonts-bugs, gwync, i18n-bugs, mclasen, mshao, orion, pnemade, psatpute, Stevan_White, tagoh | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | i18n | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | 956192 | Environment: | |||||
| Last Closed: | 2013-07-03 01:42:41 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Pravin Satpute
2013-05-09 11:24:22 UTC
I will provide patch to fix this in upstream or Fedora. This issues is specifically for invalid rendering of some Devanagari syllable using FreeSans. Created attachment 748662 [details]
patch to fix rendering issue.
I have reported this problem in upstream as well. So if upstream is quick we can wait for there release, else will be good to build this with locale fedora patch.
upstream bug is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?39007 Hi, your friendly GNU FreeFont admin here. This is a known problem, which has been repaired some time ago in SVN. The 2012 release of GNU FreeFont was tested with Pango and Win XP, by native speakers and by myself. The font shaping engine of Windows Vista and 7 is substantially different from that of XP, and it was known at the time of the previous release that this change resulted in wrong rendering in those systems, much like the one described here. Harfbuzz emulates these newer Windows shaping engines, and so the problem arises there. One of the main thrusts in FreeFont over the past year has been to re-engineer the lookup tables to work with the newer font renderers. As to when a new release will happen: I don't know -- soon, I hope. Some ranges of the font are not in a deliverable state at this time. I'll renew my efforts on this. I'll continue the discussion in the GNU FreeFont bug report. Cheers! Thanks Steve for update and fixing this issue in upstream. Expecting soon next release from you :) Hi Jon, I think next upstream release will take some more time. I checked with the upstream svn for the fix of this bug. Patch given by me match with fix in upstream. It will be good if you can build gnu-free-fonts with the patch provided in comment #2, so that we can get gnu-free-fonts issues fixed release in Fedora 19. Spec file for quick build with above patch is available http://pravins.fedorapeople.org/gnu-free-fonts.spec Hi Pravin, You are right in that the FreeFont release cannot be expected within the next month or so. There are just too many issues in progress at this time. The patch is the right way to go. gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19 Package gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11605/gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19 then log in and leave karma (feedback). gnu-free-fonts-20120503-7.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |