Bug 116957

Created attachment 49900 [details]
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Which fonts do we currently have in instsys for Bengali and Punjabi?

- "Mukti Narrow" for Bengali
- "Lohit Punjabi" for Punjabi

is that right?

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/MuktiNarrow.ttf 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/lohit_pa.ttf 

OK, same as comment #3, I remembered correctly.

Steffen> there seems to be a glyph for '.' (full stop) missing in both Bengali
Steffen> and Punjabi.

The glyph which is displayed as a box in the screen shot in comment #1
(which shows Punjabi) is not '.' (U+002E), it is U+0964. 

According to pa.orth in the fontconfig sources, U+0964 is not required
for Punjabi:

mfabian@magellan:/sakura/mfabian/suse-packages/STABLE/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.3.2.20050721/fc-lang$ cat pa.orth
#
# $RCSId:$
#
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# CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
# DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#
# Punjabi (Gurumukhi script) (HI)
#
# From Unicode coverage for Gurumukhi, with modifications based on
# the 'Lohit Punjabi' font
#
# 0A01-0A03	# Various signs
0A05-0A0A	# Independent vowels
0A0F-0A10
0A13-0A14
0A15-0A28	# Consonants
0A2A-0A30
0A32-0A33
0A35-0A36
0A38-0A39
0A3C		# Nukta
0A3E-0A42	# Dependent vowel signs
0A47-0A48
0A4B-0A4C
0A4D		# Virama
0A59-0A5C	# Additional consonants
# 0A5E		# GURMUKHI LETTER FA
# 0A66-0A6F	# Digits
0A70-0A74	# Gurmukhi-specific additions
mfabian@magellan:/sakura/mfabian/suse-packages/STABLE/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.3.2.20050721/fc-lang$

And the "Lohit Punjabi" font which we use for Punjabi doesn't have
the glyph U+0964 either.

U+0964 (DEVANAGARI DANDA = phrase separator) is in the "Devanagari" range of Unicode.

U+0964 is *not* required for Bengali according to bn.orth in the fontconfig sources.

Our font "Mukti Narrow" which is used for Bengali happens to have this glyph though.

If U+0964 (DEVANAGARI DANDA = phrase separator) is really needed for
Punjabi, it should be added to the Punjabi fonts and to pa.orth in fontconfig.

If not, why is U+0964 (DEVANAGARI DANDA = phrase separator) used in
the Punjabi translations?

Add Punjabi translator to CC:.

Hi Amanpreet Singh Alam,

why is U+0964 (DEVANAGARI DANDA = phrase separator) used in the
Punjabi translations but missing in the "Lohit Punjabi" font and in
pa.orth in fontconfig?

→ NEEDINFO.

Mike, 
U+0964 is used in Punjabi as full stop in English. So It shows end of Line
and Used in Punjabi. So, this is required, but Lohit font failed to provide in
Punjabi font.
Most GTK based Application, it shows no problem, but QT and Openoffice shows
BLOCK only, so need to fix.

I dont know bengali. 
There seems to be a Full Stop character in lohit, couldnt find this in Likhaan.
Since there is no unicode namespace assigned to the full stop. Each font will
have its own way to implement this.
We can decide on a default fonts and use that during translations.

Amish.