Re: 23.0.60; Indic Script is not rendered properly

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>]

On Tue, 27 May 2008 21:45:23 +0530, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla <wahjava@gmail.com> said: 

> ,--[ On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:48:40PM +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> [snip]

>> Hmmm, it seems that your FreeSans.ttf is old.  At least, my
>> FreeSans.ttf (Version 1.79 of date 16-5-2007) displays that text
>> correctly.

> Are you using FreeSans.ttf from repositories, hmm..? The version of
> GNU freefont[1], I'm using is 20080323, released on 24-Mar-2008. BtW,
> I'm using freefont-ttf. And they've made no releases in 2007.

> And on hexdump -C FreeSans.ttf, I got following version, I hope thats
> the correct version:
> Version: $Revision: 1.136$

> So, are there any issues with new version of freefont ?

        To chime in, I have the same version.  It comes from:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
__> dpkg -l ttf-freefont
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  ttf-freefont   20080323-3     Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

        manoj
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