GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 744121
Marathi (mr-India) font not displaying correctly
Last modified: 2015-02-08 11:43:44 UTC
Created attachment 296315 [details] Look at the blacked out area in the terminal Overview: This seems to be a long time problem, I use my system in Marathi all the time. But the gnome-terminal does not support proper display of marathi fonts. This makes the text unreadable sometimes. While with yakuake terminal. It displays marathi text properly. But Yakuake is a part of KDE-suite, installing it takes a lot of dependencies along with it. While I can still work with it, but It would be great if the text gets rendered properly. Steps to Reproduce: Install the OS by default in mr-India and terminal text will not show properly. Also tried with Debian Gnu/Linux, produces the same thing.
Created attachment 296316 [details] I have shown the affected area with a block
I believe this is the same as bug 584160 (see the screenshot in its 1st comment), correct? Could you please try the patches from comments 49-51 (preferably the 2nd one) and provide feedback? You need to patch your vte (0.36.x for gnome-terminal 3.12), overwriting the installed version and quitting all gnome-terminal instances for the changes to take effect. Or for a quick demo: download, patch and compile vte, and without installing you can run ./src/vte2.90.
Setting NEEDINFO status as per last question. Please reset once answered.
Thanks for the quick reply I took a look at the bug 584160 and concluded that it is the same bug. The bug is for rendering of Devnagari scripts which is used for both hi-IN & mr-IN . I saw the screenshots as well. You can mark this bug as a duplicate then. I have downloaded the patch. But I don't know how to apply it. Can I get some help with that?
Download latest vte tarball, uncompress, change to its directory, then execute patch -p1 < thepatchfile (if it fails, try with an earlier tarball version, roughly matching the timestamp when I did those patches), then compile as usual ("./configure" (if there are any errors then install the missing packages) followed by "make", and run by ./src/vte2.90 or ./srv/vte-2.91, whichever is available). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 584160 ***