Request replacing Mukti family of fonts from ttf-indic-core

[Arne Goetje]

xourov wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Arne Goetje <arne.goetje at canonical.com
> <mailto:arne.goetje at canonical.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi xourov,
> 
>     xourov wrote:
>     > I would like to request that MuktiNarrow family of fonts be
>     replaced by
>     > another Bengali font because it does not support some composite glyphs
>     > needed to display Assamese texts.  The gyphs are associated with the
>     > letter ৰ. I have had to delete the particular ttf files
>     (MuktiNarrow.ttf
>     > and MuktiNarrowBold.ttf) after the installation (retaining the
>     other ttf
>     > fonts) because of this problem and install new fonts, which
>     defeats the
>     > purpose of the minimal ttf-indic-core package.
>     >
>     > If this is not the right forum, kindly indicate where I need to
>     present
>     > this.
> 
>     Which font would be more suitable instead of MuktiNarrow? I'm happy to
>     replace the font if another one has better support for Bengali and
>     Assamese.
> 
> 
> I have tested Lohit-Bengali and it works.  I would recommend it.  It is
> available already in the ttf-bengali-fonts package.  

Thanks for testing. I will replace the font then.

Cheers
Arne

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