From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.23 [en] Description of problem: The translation of the essential packages for the Bangla/Bengali language, at the time of this writing, is more then 90%, thus it should be included and supported during the installation process of Fedora Core 2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start anaconda installer Actual Results: Bangla/Bengali is not present in the list of languages. Expected Results: Bangla/Bengali should be among the installation languages. Additional info:
I need the following information: 1) Confirmation that we ship a working font to display the language in X. If it's a language with all new glyphs (which I believe Bengali is), then I need to know what package the font comes from and which font to use so that it will actually display in the installer 2) The following information for the lang-table * console keyboard map to use * default time zone (eg, America/New York) * console font to use * default locale * keyboard mapping to use in X
1) Bengali fonts are suppose to included in FC by Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>. See the urls below, http://www.redhat. com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg01305.html http://www.redhat. com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-January/msg01330.html The fonts should be in the stage2.img fs in the installer cd. MuktiNarrow font looks ugly when you enable hinting. This can be avoided by inserting the following lines in, stage2/etc/fonts/local.conf <match target="font"> <test name="family"> <string>Mukti Narrow</string> </test> <edit name="hinting"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> 2)Here is the information for the lang-table Full language name...: Bangla/Bengali (Bangladesh) Short name...........: bn Default Locale.......: bn_BD.UTF-8 Default keyboard map.: en Console font.........: default Timezone.............: GMT+6 Asia/Dhaka Full language name...: Bangla/Bengali (India) Short name...........: bn Default Locale.......: bn_IN.UTF-8 Default keyboard map.: en Console font.........: default Timezone.............: GMT+530 Asia/Calcutta
Some comments (sorry for the spam): 1. The keyboard layout should be en (or is it US?) in all cases (since you can't have passwd and stuff like that in Bangla yet 2. The default console font should be whatever that used for English install - since no console font has Bengali glyphs. I think the font in that case would be latarcyrheb-sun16 3. Bengali is written in the Bengali script as বাà¦à¦²à¦¾
By the way, the SRPM for the bengali font is at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.91/SRPMS/fonts-bengali-0.1-2.src.rpm Apparently, the FreeType autohinter cannot handle Indic fonts correctly. Freetype with bytecode interpreter enabled works fine. I don't suppose Fedora will be enabling that - so the best solution will be disable autohinting for the MuktiNarrow font by adding the lines as suggested by Jamil in comment #2.
Added to lang-table and pull in fonts. http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/anaconda/anaconda-bengali.png is running in test mode As far as the auto-hinting change, this would need to be done on a global basis for the distro, so filing against fontconfig to get that done would be the best approach.
I am getting "Page Not Found 404" @ http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/anaconda/anaconda-bengali.png :( `Jamil
Bug filed against fontconfig (bug #120915). Thanks for all the help :-)