[smc-discuss] Other Free Fonts with Malayalam Glyphs

[Baiju M]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar
<rajeeshknambiar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I just raised this issue here:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?41892

I am not sure what kind of details will be helpful.
Feel free to add more details there.

Regards,
Baiju M