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NGStaph

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Registered: 2021-04-11

Posts: 34

[Solved] Fonts - Incorrect rendering of Devanagari Ligatures

the Devanagari ligature for 'shra' is broken. I am not sure if this is the only ligature affected.
Attempting to type the character fails, and other applications (Spotify) fail to render the character correctly.

श्र

Current Example

changing the system display language within gnome settings (locale?) fixes the issue but the font is chopped/not smooth.

Expected Example

this is not an issue i've experienced before, all that i usually had to do was install all relevant noto-fonts.

Could this be related to: 

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386

Last edited by NGStaph (2023-03-26 11:00:59)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 62,689

Re: [Solved] Fonts - Incorrect rendering of Devanagari Ligatures

Noto is neither bitmap nor pcf.

fc-match "Noto Sans Devanagari"
FC_DEBUG=4 pango-view --font="sans" -t "श्र" | grep family:

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NGStaph

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Registered: 2021-04-11

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Re: [Solved] Fonts - Incorrect rendering of Devanagari Ligatures

Thanks for your response!
I've created the necessary config files using both match and alias/prefer but Apps like Spotify (flatpak) still use the incorrect font.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [Solved] Fonts - Incorrect rendering of Devanagari Ligatures

but […] flatpak still use the incorrect font

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1563
https://www.reddit.com/r/flatpak/commen … nfig_file/

=> Don't use flatschpak.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=spotify

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