[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

[Walter Bender]

I get mixed results after reseting the font cache:

All the Sugar fields work fine.

In write, I need to cycle through the font selection menu a few times
before I get to work, but then it works consistently.

With the browser, I get a funny mix. For example, on the Devanagari
page in the wikipedia, I get the first instance of 09XX characters
rendered properly, but farther down in the page, the rendering doesn't
work.

-walter

(Attachments coming in a separate email)

On 10/15/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:54 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> > I just managed to get Write to render Deva text, but I used the DejaVu
> > Sans. When I switch to Lohit, the rendering doesn't work properly.
> >
>
> Arjun and myself had a joint debug session over IRC (thanks a ton Arjun,
> for patiently answering all my questions :-), and we figured out that
> somehow, fontconfig was incorrectly returning Deja Vu as the preferred
> font for Devanagari (ie, Hindi or Marathi).
> fc-match lang:mr.
>
> This was finally fixed by deleting all the fontconfig caches (ie,
> ~/.fontconfig and /var/cache/fontconfig) and then rerunning fc-cache -f
>
> After that Arjun still cannot get his XO to display Devanagari text -
> I'm not sure why, since I can get both Browse and Write to work in the
> 616 build (using Qemu).
> Screenshots:
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/images/olpc_write_hindi_sshot.png
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/images/olpc_browse_hindi_sshot.png
>
> Walter: If possible, could you try deleting your fonts cache manually
> and trying again ?
>
> Warm regards,
> Sayamindu
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings
>
>


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Walter Bender
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