[Lohit-devel-list] Lohit Devanagari not displaying ञ्जि properly

[Pravin Satpute]

On Friday 15 July 2011 12:49 PM, Pravin Satpute wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2011 05:53 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>> Hello. I use the Devanagari script heavily as I am a Sanskrit 
>> scholar. So I'm using Lohit Devanagari 2.4.5 on Kubuntu Natty. (I was 
>> disappointed that Kubuntu doesn't ship the latest Lohit fonts so I 
>> deleted all Lohit fonts installed by default and manually installed 
>> the latest.) I also use Lohit fonts on the occasions when I have to 
>> go to Windows XP.
>>
>> I however find that the syllable ञ्जि is not being displayed properly. 
>> Please see the attachment. The ordinary left-hand glyph of ि is being 
>> substituted by the extra long glyph -- possibly under the presumption 
>> that ञ्ज contains a conjoining form which would come to extra width. 
>> However, since ञ्ज is handled as a single ligature of normal width, 
>> this substitution should not occur.
>
> Yes, this is problem, I will fix this soon.
>
Resolved
see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722382

Regards,
Pravin S