Thank you for working on this!
What's the plan for Kinetic? Please see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Newer_Releases
If the goal is to make Sinhala text more readable on Ubuntu, please
could you make that an additional part of the Test Plan, instead of only
checking the order of output in a font listing? I appreciate that would
be subjective, but I think that with the screenshots given, asking
someone who can read Sinhala to just verify it's a substantial
improvement and matches expectations would be much better than not doing
that at all. In working to fix this we should ensure that we've actually
achieved the intended goal, rather than an intermediary technical step.
> Where problems could occur
It sounds like font metrics are changing, so text might wrap
differently, resulting in it no longer fitting, or change the size of
windows, etc, in various user interface elements. It sounds like it's
worth the change, but please look out for this during testing.
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: In Progress => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2000551
Title:
[System Fonts] Replace default sinhala font from LKLUG to Noto
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Status in language-selector source package in Jammy:
Incomplete
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
The current default font for Sinhala (LKLUG) is unmaintained and comes
with issues. Noto offers Sinhala fonts with significantly higher
quality.
fonts-lklug-sinhala is pulled by quite a few meta packages. Instead of
changing that, the proposed change makes fontconfig give Noto Sans
Sinhala respective Noto Serif Sinhala higher precedence than LKLUG,
and that — together with installation of fonts-noto-core — seems to be
sufficient to achieve the desired result.
[ Test Plan ]
* Install language-selector-[common,gnome] from jammy-proposed.
* Open Language Support and install the Sinhala language.
* Open a terminal window and run this command:
fc-match -a | grep -E 'LKLUG|Sinhala'
* Confirm that Noto Sans Sinhala is listed before LKLUG.
[ Where problems could occur ]
No real problem in sight. Some Sinhala speaking users with fonts-noto-
core installed will indeed see a surprise change when it starts to
render Sinhala via Noto fonts instead of LKLUG. But that surprise
ought to make them happy. :)
[ Original description ]
**What's the problem?**
Currently ubuntu comes with LKLUG font for sinhala (si). it's not
clear. e.g. we cannot recognize vowel signs and read websites using
that font. We can change it manually but such changes do not apply to
some applications or application types e.g. snap apps etc.
LKLUG (last active: 2012) no one maintain it now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/http://www.lug.lk/
http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug
**What expected to happen?**
We would like to see Noto serif sinhala as the default font for sinhala
language
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif+Sinhala
[Highlighs: clear (readable), thin, takes less space than sans sinhala]
If noto sans is more suitable for ubuntuOS, you can add noto sans sinhala
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Sinhala
[Highlighs: clear (readable), thick, takes more space than serif sinhala]
**Additional details**
Screenshots (see the difference: LKLUG/Noto)
LKLUG
https://i.ibb.co/nbHM5Mw/lklug.jpg
Noto Sinhala
https://i.ibb.co/k9dbtYb/noto.jpg
If you need more examples or clarifications, please add a comment
Random posts
1. https://groups.google.com/g/Sinhala-Unicode/c/LYxuJ44dY3g
2. https://twitter.com/thilinag/status/1598707165920825344#m (LKLUG bug with
some apps)
3.
https://www.reddit.com/r/srilanka/comments/nzpl9p/change_sinhala_font_in_ubuntu/
Also, some developers already have designed tools, scripts for that problem
however many people do not try to find these scripts and switch to other OS
1. https://github.com/IMS94/UbuntuSinhalaFont (developer: PMC chair @apache)
2. https://gist.github.com/thilinag/66577033fafd00c3dfdaa898c2478c79
3. https://github.com/hankyoTutorials/linux-system-sinhala-font-changer
Please review details, screenshots and posts. This is not a personal
opinion and atleast, i expect to see this change in the next interim
or LTS release.
Furthermore, please let me know if i can help to speed-up this
replacement process
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