Created attachment 1848544 [details] unicode spec. Description of problem: Lohit Punjabi Font does not recognize some subjoined consonants which should be recognized per Unicode specs and are recognised by other fonts from other vendors. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to type subjoined consonants with characters ਕ,ਗ,ਚ,ਤ,ਥ,ਟ,ਠ,ਦ,ਧ,ਨ 2. It shows as ਪ੍ਕ , ਪ੍ਗ, ਪ੍ਚ......instead of these letters showing properly at the bottom of preceding character. Actual results:ਪ੍ਕ , ਪ੍ਗ, ਪ੍ਚ. Expected results: letters showing properly at the bottom of preceding character. Additional info: Related Unicode document attached. Raavi and Ravi font from Microsoft render it correctly.
Note that we have already switched the default Punjabi font in Fedora to google-noto-sans-gurmukhi-vf-fonts some time ago. Probably better to report this to https://github.com/lohit-fonts/lohit-gurmukhi-fonts though right now we don't have an active maintainer unfortunately.
google-noto-sans-gurmukhi fonts suffer from almost same flaws. Please, see attached pictures..or you can see the text in the gurmukhi text in the comment using noto fonts and attched font file( attached to explain the issue ). also, see attached images to see the difference. 2. ਪੈਰੀਂ ਅੱਖਰ – ਸਾਰੇ ਟੈਸਟ ਪ ਅੱਖਰ ਵਰਤ ਕੇ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ ਹਨ। ਹ,ਕ,ਗ,ਚ,ਜ,ਟ,ਠ,ਨ,ਰ,ਯ,ਵ ਪੈਰੀਂ ਵਰਤੇ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਹਨ। ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਪ੍ਹ ਪ੍ਕ ਪ੍ਗ ਪ੍ਚ ਪ੍ਛ ਪ੍ਜ ਪ੍ਟ ਪ੍ਠ ਪ੍ਨ ਪ੍ਤ ਪ੍ਥ ਪ੍ਦ ਪ੍ਧ ਪ੍ਨ ਪ੍ਯ ਪ੍ਰ ਪ੍ਵ
Created attachment 1869615 [details] font file showing issue fixed/or not having the issue/properly rendering
Created attachment 1869616 [details] proper rendering
Created attachment 1869617 [details] noto sans gurmukhi issue
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The problem is with the font package which is part of all the Redhat offerings including Redhat enterprise so this automated closing ritual without even reading the bug won't help anyone. It only dissuades users from reporting the bugs. I reported the bug referring to the OS version where "I" found it. The same font is used in other distributions so it is in all the distros.
We have basically switched Fedora (and RHEL 9) to use google-noto-sans-gurmukhi-vf-fonts by default. So I highly recommend reporting this also to https://github.com/notofonts/gurmukhi/issues . Indeeed, which is why I have opened https://github.com/lohit-fonts/lohit-gurmukhi-fonts/issues/1 upstream to track this.