We made a PPA for Malayalam fonts which supports 15.04 as well https://launchpad.net/~smcproject/+archive/ubuntu/repo
Please some one show some love to the bug i pointed earlier (958345 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958345>) and on this question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+question/260410 Fixes needed for Malayalam 1. Installer dependency is now ttf-indic-fonts-core which contains 2010 version of fonts , totally outdated due to change in opentype specification and support for new rendering engines . For Malayalam , Meera04 and Rachana04 need to be removed from that package and installer dependency for Malayalam need to be set to fonts-smc-meera (whichyou can take from PPA) 2. All Malayalam Language support now points ttf-malayalam-fonts , Please change it to fonts-smc and if possible include fonts-smc to main repo . The PPA have updated version This is the most wanted fix for a language community from Indian State named Kerala, where ubuntu is used in its iT@school program in the state . Now we force to remaster the isos for school use due to issues like this ~ regards Anivar Aravind https://in.linkedin.com/in/anivar On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.arav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all > > > This bug needs some love . Indian Language fonts in ubuntu hasnt uodated > after 2010 . Debian moved to fonts-<foundry> naming and removed all > ttf-<languagename>-fonts packages . Now Ubuntu is having many of these > packages ported from Debian . eg . For Malayalam fonts-smc and > ttf-malayalam-fonts contains same fonts but fonts-smc is the latest version > . But all language setup points to the older version of fonts > > ttf-indic-fonts-core having mostly outdated fonts (installer dependency) > and it results rendering fail . This is crucial for Indian languages > because with the emergence of harfbuzz as a rendering stack , and update in > opentype V2 for fonts , old version of fonts produces rendering issues . > > So please consider this as high priority and fix it on 15.04 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/958345 >
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