[smc-discuss] Other Free Fonts with Malayalam Glyphs

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Baiju M <baiju.m.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Santhosh Thottingal
> <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...snip...]
>> IMO It takes
>> a lot of effort to bring back it in a functional form. Distros are shipping
>> a broken version and I hear complaints about this every time. Uninstall GNU
>> FreeFont was the advice I used to give, even though I am sad about it.
>
> I spend few hours to figure out the issue with GNU Freefont in my
> newly installed Debian.
> So definitely this would be affecting other new Debian users.  I
> haven't came across this issue
> with Fedora or Ubuntu.  Probably those distros may not be installing
> this font by default.

No, Fedora doesn't install gnu-free-fonts by default. Sometimes it
mislead me too thinking that rendering of Rachana is broken whilst the
fallback glyphs are actually from GNU freefont. Usual advise is to
remove them.

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Cheers,
Rajeesh