Bug 1191485 - A proper Malayalam language display support is not available with the distribution
Summary: A proper Malayalam language display support is not available with the distrib...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Translations (show other bugs)
Version: Leap 15.3
Hardware: x86-64 Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Karl Eichwalder
QA Contact: Karl Eichwalder
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Keywords: I18N
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Reported: 2021-10-08 12:55 UTC by Praveen Prakash
Modified: 2021-10-09 09:04 UTC (History)
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ml.wikipedia.org @ Chromium browser (157.61 KB, image/png)
2021-10-08 18:38 UTC, Praveen Prakash 		Details
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Description Praveen Prakash 2021-10-08 12:55:31 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
Build Identifier: 

Malayalam language websites without web-fonts doesn't render properly. This is mostly caused by the unavailability of proper fonts.

Distribution requires at-least one proper font for Malayalam language.  

Issue solves by installing a proper font.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open web browser (default firefox)
2. Load a Malayalam website (ml.wikipedia.org)
3. or try searching a Malayalam word in google (https://www.google.com/search?q=മലയാളം)


Actual Results:  
Page loads normally but words are garbled and not easy to read. Totally erroneous spacing between letters.

Screenshot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T5wCWjpkP-9AjOeKtKiA6E5fZD_gvUwM/view?usp=sharing

Expected Results:  
Correct proper rendering of Malayalam language.

Proper rendering after installing correct font (screenshot): https://drive.google.com/file/d/121pW1_XJVsGzcH2LElfszi8WcW0geKIS/view?usp=sharing

Similar issues regarding Malayalam Language rendering resolved across various distributions atleast a decade ago. Upstream developers of Malayalam fonts (Fedora, Ubuntu etc): https://smc.org.in/fonts/ 

It seems atleast couple of other Indian languages are also affected by similar bugs.
Punjabi - https://pa.wikipedia.org
Telugu - https://te.wikipedia.org
Comment 1 Praveen Prakash 2021-10-08 18:38:03 UTC 
Created attachment 853033 [details]
ml.wikipedia.org @ Chromium browser

Chromium and google chrome are even worse!