[Bug 1945817] Re: Change default Amharic font from Abyssinica SIL to Noto Serif Ethiopic

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi carnage-mode,

Thanks for your report. We could make it install fonts-noto-core by
default when you install the Amharic language. That package provides
both "Noto Serif Ethiopic" and "Noto Sans Ethiopic".

As a test, can you please run these commands:

sudo apt purge fonts-sil-abyssinica
sudo apt install fonts-noto-core

and let us know if the result is an improved rendering of Amharic.

** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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

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

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)

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Title:
  Change default Amharic font from Abyssinica SIL to Noto Serif Ethiopic

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Description of problem:

  Abyssinica SIL is an old font. It's barely legible and breaks in most
  apps. Noto Serif Ethiopic, on the other hand, is a modern and well
  designed font.

  Noto Serif Ethiopic is distributed with the Open Font License, so
  packaging it won't be a problem.

  Link
  https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif+Ethiopic?noto.query=Amharic&noto.script=Ethi

  Version: 20.04.3

  How reproducible:
  always

  Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Pretty much using the the Amharic language anywhere on Ubuntu

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