Last modified: 2014-01-31 09:07:54 UTC
Created attachment 7682 [details] Rendering screenshots Wikimedia servers render svg files which include malayalam text incorrectly. Screenshot of the server rendered and locally rendered versions of above mentioned svg file is attached.
The required fonts might need to be added to the image scale-rs.
Fonts in both screenshots are same (Seems font Rachana). Afraid rendering needs to be fixed. This kind of display error was common in Linux until 2008. Later fixed in Pango.
Indeed a bug in the text layouting of pango. Might be fixed with updating both pango and rsvg (see also bug 24000).
Doing to this bug what I did to bug 24000. People have been asking for update of these and a few other core utils and the effort seems stalled.
Removing "shell" keyword for things that aren't directly doable by shell users etc
Adding ops keyword
Removing shell keyword if exists
Looking at this, upgrading to 10.04 will fix the known version problems Just spoke to CT about this, and will look into whether we get the current image scalers upgraded, or how to proceed
lowering priority on this that will take a little longer to get resolved.
I forced an ?action=purge on http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82:Status_iucn3.1_LC_ml.svg and refreshed -- it now renders as in the good part of the sample issue, whereas previous rendering was as in the bad part of the sample issue. Resolving FIXED. :D (If any bad-rendering images still exist, try an ?action=purge on them.)
Hi, most of the rendering issues are resolved, readability increased pretty high, thank you. But still some problems remain. Please check http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Licensing_tutorial_ml_%28Text%29.svg I hope this svg which uses path instead of text of above image will help to find correct rendering: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Licensing_tutorial_ml.svg Can you please specify the default font for Malayalam also?
I think somebody has updated, default font to Rachana from Malayalam. So almost all rendering issues are solved. Rachana from so called "upstream developers" still follows Unicode 5.0 which does not contain atomic chillus, new [[Indian Rupee]] symbol, correct representation of zero etc. So they cause another set of readability issues.
Please make sure a proper unicode Malayalam font that support atomic chillus are set as the default Malayalam font for the Malayalam wiki projects. "Malayalam wiki community" is not at all fine with using Unicode version 5.0 for Wikimedia activities. We have already moved to higher version of unicode. We definitely do not want to go back to earlier version of unicode, unless Unicode consortium decides other wise.
could somebody confirm if you still wait for additional font packages to be installed? and if yes, if any of these Ubuntu distro packages would be what you're after? language-support-fonts-ml - Additional fonts metapackage for Malayalam language-support-ml - metapackage for Malayalam language support ttf-indic-fonts-core - Core collection of free fonts for languages of India ttf-malayalam-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Malayalam language
Yes, please check links in comment 11. Recently I heard developers updated their fonts. I don't know their specific package name (also heard package name also changed from ttf-malayam-fonts to something like smc-fonts). I'm not sure about its existance in 10.04 repository. Probably Santhosh will be able to help.
(In reply to comment #15) > Yes, please check links in comment 11. Look good to me
Ubuntu is yet to update the package to latest version of the fonts. Here is the bug I filed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/958345 The png image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Licensing_tutorial_ml_%28Text%29.svg obviously uses old font and has rendering issues. The svg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Licensing_tutorial_ml_%28Text%29.svg - uses text and not path, so if your local system has latest version of Rachana font, you will see it rendered using that.
*** Bug 31950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #17) > Ubuntu is yet to update the package to latest version of the fonts. > Here is the bug I filed > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-indic-fonts/+bug/958345 Thanks! > The svg - > http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Licensing_tutorial_ml_%28Text%29.svg > - uses text and not path, so if your local system has latest version of Rachana > font, you will see it rendered using that. I've installed fonts-indic from debian but the wrapping is still messed up. Should I expect that? Am I doing something wrong?
(In reply to comment #19) > I've installed fonts-indic from debian but the wrapping is still messed up. > Should I expect that? Am I doing something wrong? If you installed fonts-indic, we expect error free rendering without any missing glyphs. I can check if you can share a screenshot.
Created attachment 10314 [details] current view > If you installed fonts-indic, we expect error free rendering without any > missing glyphs. I can check if you can share a screenshot. Here you go.
(In reply to comment #21) > Created attachment 10314 [details] > current view > > > If you installed fonts-indic, we expect error free rendering without any > > missing glyphs. I can check if you can share a screenshot. > > Here you go. The fonts are latest ones and there is no problem with rendering . The top title is not wrapped well into the space there. But I think that is a svg design issue(either title should be small font size or llinebreaks required) and not at all related to fonts.
Lowering priority on high priority bugs that have a low severity
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:IBM_PC_Memory_areas-ml.svg this image uses Atomic chillu characters and displays it, but looks bit different from other characters. I feel that chillu characters are taken from some other fonts. Font specified in the above image is Raghu. But surprisingly the image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Licensing_tutorial_ml_%28Text%29.svg gives no chillu character yet! Specified font in this image is Rachana. First image gives an impression fonts are partially updated. I don't know whether ubuntu repo is updated in such a way.
We've upgraded image scalers to precise last week, which includes newer versions of pretty much everything (fonts, librsvg etc.). Could you re-check and see if the bug still appears?
As you can observe in the second link of above comment (Comment 24), bug is still open. Please see Comment 11 also.
So problematic http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Licensing_tutorial_ml_%28Text%29.svg uses Rachana font, still an issue after recent server upgrade to librsvg 2.36, pango 1.30. Raghu font seems to work according to comment 24. Wondering about other fonts, such as Anjali. Note to myself: For Chillu characters, see http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.1.0/#Malayalam_Chillu_Characters
So what's happening here? is Mark an accurate assignee?
The font problem also affects devanagari. The problem is similar to Malayalam. The viram character ् (U+094D) should result in two characters joining but the text shows them separately. For example, see the template [1]. The text इस्लाम शाह सूरी (1545 - 1554) near the bottom left (as an example) is rendered incorrectly. The labels contain the word साम्राज्य which is also rendered incorrectly. Please let me know if a screenshot/another bug is needed. Thanks. [1]: https://hi.wikipedia.org/s/734m
(In reply to comment #29) Please disregard that. Wrong bug. Comment meant for Bug 21497.
