Bug ID 1191485
Summary A proper Malayalam language display support is not available with the distribution
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version Leap 15.3
Hardware x86-64
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component Other
Assignee screening-team-bugs@suse.de
Reporter me.praveen@gmail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/78.0
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Malayalam language websites without web-fonts doesn't render properly. This is
mostly caused by the unavailability of proper fonts.

Distribution requires at-least one proper font for Malayalam language.  

Issue solves by installing a proper font.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open web browser (default firefox)
2. Load a Malayalam website (ml.wikipedia.org)
3. or try searching a Malayalam word in google
(https://www.google.com/search?q=������������������������������������������������������)


Actual Results:  
Page loads normally but words are garbled and not easy to read. Totally
erroneous spacing between letters.

Screenshot:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T5wCWjpkP-9AjOeKtKiA6E5fZD_gvUwM/view?usp=sharing

Expected Results:  
Correct proper rendering of Malayalam language.

Proper rendering after installing correct font (screenshot):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/121pW1_XJVsGzcH2LElfszi8WcW0geKIS/view?usp=sharing

Similar issues regarding Malayalam Language rendering resolved across various
distributions atleast a decade ago. Upstream developers of Malayalam fonts
(Fedora, Ubuntu etc): https://smc.org.in/fonts/ 

It seems atleast couple of other Indian languages are also affected by similar
bugs.
Punjabi - https://pa.wikipedia.org
Telugu - https://te.wikipedia.org


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