[Bug 1800965] Re: Browsers don't display Devanagari script correctly

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I made an attempt to address this bug via another package. The language-
selector-common package installs /etc/fonts/conf.avail/64-language-
selector-prefer.conf, and I added "Lohit Devanagari" (installed by
default) to that file.

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/ubuntu/+source/language-
selector/commit/?id=0496ecdc

It has not been uploaded yet, and it would be great if you could confirm
that the change fixes the issue in this bug.

** Also affects: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  Browsers don't display Devanagari script correctly

Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  In the file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf the "Raghindi" font family is specified for devanagari script in Serif and Sans-serif style while "Lohit Hindi" in monospace. On the other hand, the Raghindi font is not installed by default. Because of this, the web browsers including Chrome and Firefox don't display the script correctly. A lot of people struggle to correct it by manually changing the settings in the browsers and partially succeed.
  The problem can be completely solved by replacing "Raghindi" in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf with "Lohit Hindi" or any other pre-installed font.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: fontconfig-config 2.13.0-5ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Nov  1 07:38:12 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-22 (9 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: fontconfig
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.fonts.conf.avail.65-nonlatin.conf: 2018-10-26T14:54:05.700607

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