[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

[Walter Bender]

On 10/15/07, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> One Laptop per Child
> http://laptop.org
>


-- 
Walter Bender
One Laptop per Child
http://laptop.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: tmp4u5HKf.png
Type: image/png
Size: 183479 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/attachments/20071015/3aedda0b/attachment-0002.png 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: tmpDxViVi.png
Type: image/png
Size: 45226 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/india/attachments/20071015/3aedda0b/attachment-0003.png