Hi, I've refreshed the patch for 2.9 version of fontconfig attaching it with this mail. The patch is already in DEP-3 format please consider it merging it will help us resolve a long standing issue of getting wrong fonts on Indian language.
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Description: Correct the font names for nonlatin languages
This patch does the following.
1. Use Rachana as serif font for Malayalam as Meera is only Sans
family.
2. Remove TSCu_Paranar since its legacy encoded non-unicode font.
3. Remove non existing fonts malayalam and sampige.
Author: Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasu...@gmail.com>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/661245
Origin: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2011-December/003725.html
Last-Update: 2013-06-09
--- fontconfig-2.9.0.orig/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
+++ fontconfig-2.9.0/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
<family>Urdu Nastaliq Unicode</family> <!-- arabic (ur) -->
<family>Raghindi</family> <!-- devanagari -->
<family>Mukti Narrow</family> <!-- bengali -->
- <family>malayalam</family> <!-- malayalam -->
- <family>Sampige</family> <!-- kannada -->
<family>padmaa</family> <!-- gujarati -->
<family>Hapax Berbère</family> <!-- tifinagh -->
<family>MS Mincho</family> <!-- han (ja) -->
@@ -58,7 +56,7 @@
<family>Lohit Sindhi</family>
<family>Lohit Punjabi</family>
<family>Lohit Tamil</family>
- <family>Meera</family>
+ <family>Rachana</family>
<family>Lohit Malayalam</family>
<family>Lohit Kannada</family>
<family>Lohit Telugu</family>
@@ -90,8 +88,6 @@
<family>Urdu Nastaliq Unicode</family> <!-- arabic (ur) -->
<family>Raghindi</family> <!-- devanagari -->
<family>Mukti Narrow</family> <!-- bengali -->
- <family>malayalam</family> <!-- malayalam -->
- <family>Sampige</family> <!-- kannada -->
<family>padmaa</family> <!-- gujarati -->
<family>Hapax Berbère</family> <!-- tifinagh -->
<family>MS Gothic</family> <!-- han (ja) -->
@@ -116,7 +112,6 @@
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>ＭＳ ゴシック</family>
<family>ZYSong18030</family> <!-- han (zh-cn,zh-tw) -->
- <family>TSCu_Paranar</family> <!-- tamil -->
<family>NanumGothic</family> <!-- hangul (ko) -->
<family>UnDotum</family> <!-- hangul (ko) -->
<family>Baekmuk Dotum</family> <!-- hangul (ko) -->
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