Language support summary/discussion

[Martin Pitt]

Hi Omi!

omiazad [2005-05-31 12:33 -0400]:
> I found Bengali is not working well. One in-built font has Bengali
> Glyph in it but that doesn't works well. 

Is there any already existing package we should include into the
standard installation which provides better fonts?

> I also could not change the UI font. I mean I have installed lots of
> Bangla OpenType fonts (I’m a font developer and you can find my
> works from http://ekushey.sf.net ) but I could not make them work by
> changing the Bangla fonts from Applications
> > Preferences > Font >

That means you can install the fonts (by dragging them into fonts:///
?), but they are not actually used for rendering text on the desktop?

> I also found that the Firefox or Thunderbird is not Pango enabled

Right, they are not proper Gnome programs.

> , so how come we are going to get Bangla or any other Indic language
> support? 

Does it work any better with epiphany?

> Ubuntu is getting popular day by day in Bangladesh, but all of the
> users are disappointed as we don’t have good Bangla support. If
> this is not a right place for the discussion, then please suggest me
> where can I continue the discussion.

It is the right place. The actual problem is that you are the first
Bangla user who actually reports these problems, and none of the
developers has experience with Bangla. So if you are willing to help
us with that, we will try our best to improve Bangla support.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Martin

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