[Bug 758570] New: Merge Assamese and Bengali fonts to single font

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Summary: Merge Assamese and Bengali fonts to single font

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           Summary: Merge Assamese and Bengali fonts to single font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: unspecified
         Component: lohit-fonts
        AssignedTo: extras-orphan(a)fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com
         QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: petersen(a)redhat.com, extras-orphan(a)fedoraproject.org,
                    pnemade(a)redhat.com,
                    fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
                    psatpute(a)redhat.com, i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
    Classification: Fedora
      Story Points: ---
              Type: ---


Description of problem:
Assamese and Bengali use same script Bengali.  Please merge Lohit-Assamese and
Lohit-Bengali to a single font.

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Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

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          Component|lohit-fonts                 |lohit-assamese-fonts
         AssignedTo|extras-orphan@fedoraproject |psatpute(a)redhat.com
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[Bug 758570] Merge Assamese and Bengali fonts to single font

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--- Comment #1 from Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-11-30 03:47:36 EST
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Yes, we can definitely merge these two fonts. Both has almost same shapes and
gsub/gpos tools.

But if it required to add some rules using locl feature, then we need to extend
this for may be a year. Since locl feature is not working in all rendering
engine.

We are doing this for Lohit Devanagari, its working fine with pango but not
working with other qt and icu.

Hi Nilamdyuti,

  Can you use Lohit Bengali font instead of Lohit Assamese and let us know what
are the changes required in Lohit Bengali to properly support Assamese
langauge.

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--- Comment #2 from Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-12 01:29:25 EST
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I can see now on http://www.unicode.org/charts/ that Bengali code chart is
under name of "Bengali and Assamese"

I am looking what community prefers

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--- Comment #3 from Nilamdyuti <ngoswami(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-12 01:56:32 EST ---
I am looking for that too. I have raised the issue to the community members.
Let's see what they prefer.

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--- Comment #4 from Nilamdyuti <ngoswami(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-15 09:56:02 EST ---
The community members prefer the fonts to be kept separate. Majority of them
have used or are using Lohit-Assamese and are happy with it.

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--- Comment #5 from Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-15 20:41:30 EST ---
Should we ask the Bengali community to test Lohit Assamese?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assamese_alphabet#Three_distinct_variations_...

If we do merge the fonts what should it be called?

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--- Comment #6 from Nilamdyuti <ngoswami(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-16 01:46:21 EST ---
Yes, you may do that. 

Majority of Assamese community members are web users and they found
Lohit-Assamese to be by far the best font in all perspectives. So, they are not
really in favour of a merged font since both of them are working well
separately. 

But in case if you merge the fonts, what should it be called will entirely
depend upon any naming standards that you follow for fonts if you have any.

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--- Comment #7 from Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-19 01:28:03 EST
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Hi Nilamdyuti,

  Yes, will not merge in Fedora if community do not want it.
  But can you confirm once, is Lohit Bengali works for Assamese language?

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Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-19 01:35:37 EST
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(In reply to comment #0)
>  Description of problem:
>  Assamese and Bengali use same script Bengali.  Please merge Lohit-Assamese and
>  Lohit-Bengali to a single font. 
Hi Santhosh,

  As per comment from Nilamdyuti, we should not merge these fonts.
  other reasons are:
  1) Lang tag not supported in all locales.
  2) Most of the times language users used to be in en_US locale, in that case
they cant get there language specific shapes.

  When we merged Lohit Devanagari, all forked Devanagari i.e. Marathi, Hindi,
Nepali, sindhi, Kashmiri, Konkani were identical.

  But now we have found few language specific difference.

  So from next release, i will release Lohti Devanagari together supporting all
language and Language specific font as well. Marathi. Nepali

  Lets end user decide what they want to :)

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--- Comment #9 from Nilamdyuti <ngoswami(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-19 01:46:43 EST ---
Hi Pravin,

Ok, I will check and let you know.

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--- Comment #10 from Nilamdyuti <ngoswami(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-19 02:53:45 EST ---
Hi Pravin,

Yes, Lohit Bengali works for Assamese language too.

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Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; changed:

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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2011-12-21 00:16:59

--- Comment #11 from Pravin Satpute <psatpute(a)redhat.com&gt; 2011-12-21 00:16:59 EST
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Thanks Nilamdyuti for confirmation, i thought so :)
closing 
please reopen if any problem

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