[Bug 943830] Re: Uyghur don't display correctly

[Burkut]

The DejaVu Sans font (ver: 2.33) is faulty and it's not been updated
since February, 2011. Since then, we have contacted the font team and
have it fixed to support Uyghur properly. Unfortunately, there is no
updated release (ver: 2.34?) yet, and it is still in the git repository.
If Ubuntu pick up the updated DejaVu Sans from the git and build a newer
DejaVu fonts package for the live CD, that would be perfect.

Another possibility is the KacstOne font. It supports Uyghur perfectly.
We are puzzled why the installer or fontconfig picked up faulty DejaVu
Sans instead of KacstOne when selecting Uyghur as the Installation
language.

The original Debian installer uses Nazli font for Arabic, Persian. It
was faulty to support Uyghur. Recently our team, Ubuntu Uyghur
Translation Team, fixed and updated the font to support Uyghur properly.
It is just less than 100 KB in size, with the regular and bold style.

As the FontConfig selects DejaVu for Uyghur, the currently available
best approach could be making a newer version of DejaVu font package in
Ubuntu, getting it from the git repository, not from the year old
version 2.33. Because, even if we find a better font with small size,
there might be a problem with fontconfig to pick up the right font,
thus, making our effort useless.

As we are running out of time for the 12.04 release, we are very anxious
to try any available way to solve this problem to have a better Ubuntu
experience in Uyghur language.

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Title:
  Uyghur don't display correctly

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi Developer,

  Now I am testning Ubuntu 12.04 (Daily Build) .
  I am mainly testing Uyghur Language support.
  Today I installing ubuntu, in the installer I selected Uyghur for Installer langguage. The font for displaying Uyghur in Installer is very bad shape and Uyghur character did not join correctly.

  Is it possible to use diffent font for Uyghur when installing?

  (This Bug exists in Ubuntu Oneiric too).

  I will upload my screenshot tonight.

  Gheyret Kenji
  2012/03/01

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