[Bug 2036458] New: Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode specs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036458

Bug ID: 2036458
           Summary: Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode
                    specs
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 35
            Status: NEW
         Component: Fonts
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
  Target Milestone: ---
    Classification: Fedora

Created attachment 1848544
  --> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1848544&action=edit
unicode spec.

Description of problem:
Lohit Punjabi Font does not recognize some subjoined consonants which should be
recognized per Unicode specs and are  recognised by other fonts from other
vendors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to type subjoined consonants with characters ਕ,ਗ,ਚ,ਤ,ਥ,ਟ,ਠ,ਦ,ਧ,ਨ
2. It shows as ਪ੍ਕ , ਪ੍ਗ, ਪ੍ਚ......instead of these letters showing properly at
the bottom of preceding character.

Actual results:ਪ੍ਕ , ਪ੍ਗ, ਪ੍ਚ.

Expected results: letters showing properly at the bottom of preceding
character.

Additional info: Related Unicode document attached. Raavi and Ravi font from
Microsoft render it correctly.

[Bug 2036458] Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode specs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036458

Jens Petersen  changed:

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          Component|Fonts                       |lohit-gurmukhi-fonts
           Assignee|[e-mail] |[e-mail]
                   |ct.org                      |
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
                   |                            |ect.org,
                   |                            |[e-mail]
                   |                            |ct.org,
                   |                            |[e-mail],
                   |                            |[e-mail],
                   |                            |vishalvijayraghavan@gmail.c
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         QA Contact|[e-mail] |[e-mail]
                   |ect.org                     |
           Doc Type|---                         |If docs needed, set a value

--- Comment #1 from Jens Petersen  ---
Note that we have already switched the default Punjabi font in Fedora to
google-noto-sans-gurmukhi-vf-fonts some time ago.

Probably better to report this to
https://github.com/lohit-fonts/lohit-gurmukhi-fonts
though right now we don't have an active maintainer unfortunately.

[Bug 2036458] Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode specs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036458

--- Comment #2 from Parminder Lehal  ---
google-noto-sans-gurmukhi fonts suffer from almost same flaws. Please, see
attached pictures..or you can see the  text in the gurmukhi text in the comment
using noto fonts and attched font file( attached to explain the issue ). also,
see attached images to see the difference.

2. ਪੈਰੀਂ ਅੱਖਰ – ਸਾਰੇ ਟੈਸਟ ਪ ਅੱਖਰ ਵਰਤ ਕੇ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ ਹਨ।  ਹ,ਕ,ਗ,ਚ,ਜ,ਟ,ਠ,ਨ,ਰ,ਯ,ਵ ਪੈਰੀਂ ਵਰਤੇ ਜਾਂਦੇ
ਹਨ।
       ਪ੍ਰੇਮ   ਪ੍ਹ ਪ੍ਕ ਪ੍ਗ ਪ੍ਚ ਪ੍ਛ ਪ੍ਜ ਪ੍ਟ ਪ੍ਠ ਪ੍ਨ ਪ੍ਤ ਪ੍ਥ ਪ੍ਦ ਪ੍ਧ ਪ੍ਨ ਪ੍ਯ  ਪ੍ਰ  ਪ੍ਵ

[Bug 2036458] Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode specs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036458

--- Comment #6 from Ben Cotton  ---
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Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 35 on
2022-12-13.
It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer
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a
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to a later Fedora Linux version.

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able to fix it before Fedora Linux 35 is end of life. If you would still like 
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[Bug 2036458] Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode specs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036458

--- Comment #7 from Parminder Lehal  ---
The problem is with the font package which is part of all the Redhat offerings
including Redhat enterprise so this automated closing ritual without even
reading the bug won't help anyone. It only dissuades users from reporting the
bugs. I reported the bug referring to the OS version where "I" found it. The
same font is used in other distributions so it is in all the distros.

[Bug 2036458] Lohit Punjabi font does not implement all unicode specs

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Jens Petersen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |UPSTREAM
        Last Closed|                            |2022-12-12 05:30:07

--- Comment #8 from Jens Petersen  ---
We have basically switched Fedora (and RHEL 9) to use
google-noto-sans-gurmukhi-vf-fonts by default.
So I highly recommend reporting this also to
https://github.com/notofonts/gurmukhi/issues .

Indeeed, which is why I have opened
https://github.com/lohit-fonts/lohit-gurmukhi-fonts/issues/1 upstream to track
this.