Bug ID | 1191485 |
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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 |
Found By | --- |
Blocker | --- |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 Build Identifier: 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