RTM r3 why is Nepali Unicode texts not displaying in browser app

I’m seeing the issue with e.g. http://www.ashesh.com.np/nepali-unicode.php on devices only (on my desktop the browser app displays the nepali characters fine). The issue is most likely missing fonts.

Rakesh, do you happen to know a font that supports nepali unicode characters that would be suitable for installation on devices by default? I just tested fonts-lohit-deva, and it seems to do the trick, but as I can’t read nepali I can’t validate if what gets rendered is correct.

mangal is the default nepali unicode font.

On Tuesday, October 7, 2014, Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden>
wrote:
> I’m seeing the issue with e.g. http://www.ashesh.com.np/nepali-
> unicode.php on devices only (on my desktop the browser app displays the
> nepali characters fine). The issue is most likely missing fonts.
>
> Rakesh, do you happen to know a font that supports nepali unicode
> characters that would be suitable for installation on devices by
> default? I just tested fonts-lohit-deva, and it seems to do the trick,
> but as I can’t read nepali I can’t validate if what gets rendered is
> correct.
>
> ** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
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> Title:
> RTM r3 why is Nepali Unicode texts not displaying in browser app
>
> Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> In browser app including facebook and google+ web app nepali unicode
> texts are displayed as rectangle boxes instead of actual texts.
> Doesn't it support unicode?
>
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It looks like mangal is not packaged in Ubuntu, unfortunately. Would fonts-lohit-deva be acceptable as a fallback?

I added an ubuntu-touch-meta task to track the potential addition of a suitable font package to the seed.

Devnagari is also the nepali script. But if it is already installed then
why wouldn't it display nepali unicode texts. fonts-lohit-deva description
does say it for devnagari which neans nepali also. But i am not sure. If
mangal is used then its 100% solved.

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014, Olivier Tilloy <email address hidden>
wrote:
> I added an ubuntu-touch-meta task to track the potential addition of a
> suitable font package to the seed.
>
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> Title:
> RTM r3 why is Nepali Unicode texts not displaying in browser app
>
> Status in “ubuntu-touch-meta” package in Ubuntu:
> New
> Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> In browser app including facebook and google+ web app nepali unicode
> texts are displayed as rectangle boxes instead of actual texts.
> Doesn't it support unicode?
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-touch-meta/+bug/1378184/+subscriptions
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> But if it is already installed then why wouldn't it display
> nepali unicode texts

That’s the thing: fonts-lohit-deva is not installed by default on devices, which is why I added an ubuntu-touch-meta task to see if it makes sense to add that package to the default install.

Alternatively, we could make webbrowser-app depend on fonts-lohit-deva. But other apps trying to display nepali text would suffer the same issue, so if possible I think it would be better to add the package to the seed.

This is still not solved in ubuntu touch rtm r5 on my nexus 4. Is there any work going on? Thanks in advance.

Confirmed for ubuntu-touch-meta and marked invalid for webbrowser-app as it’s not specific to the browser, it potentially affects all applications trying to display nepali text.

I have requested landing the addition of fonts-lohit-deva to the touch seed for RTM.

i think this is still skipped on ubuntu touch rtm r7.

Rakesh, this bug potentially affects every single application on ubuntu touch, not just the browser, so it’s not useful to mark webbrowser-app as affected. The bug is already tracked where it belongs, in ubuntu-touch-meta.

why is this bug not being fixed yet in rtm v 16.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-touch-meta - 1.212

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ubuntu-touch-meta (1.212) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Added fonts-lohit-deva to desktop, touch (LP: #1378184)
 -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:08:30 +0100

when will it be working on ubuntu rtm?

@ogra: can this seed change be backported to RTM? It sounds like a rather safe addition.

it will automatically come in with the switching of RTM to a vivid base with the next OTA ... there wont be and "old" RTM images anymore (at least that is the plan)

Thanks but why is it so hard to fix it. Any way my nothing I can do except
waiting.
On Apr 22, 2015 5:31 PM, "Oliver Grawert" <email address hidden> wrote:

> it will automatically come in with the switching of RTM to a vivid base
> with the next OTA ... there wont be and "old" RTM images anymore (at
> least that is the plan)
>
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> Title:
> RTM r3 why is Nepali Unicode texts not displaying in browser app
>
> Status in Web Browser App:
> Invalid
> Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu RTM:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> In browser app including facebook and google+ web app nepali unicode
> texts are displayed as rectangle boxes instead of actual texts.
> Doesn't it support unicode?
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1378184/+subscriptions
>

It’s not hard to fix, but there have been other priorities which prevented this one from making its way into RTM until now.
Now RTM is locked down until it is rebased on vivid, which will happen very soon (next OTA update), at which point you will get the fonts installed by default. Sorry that it’s taking so long, just a tiny bit more patience :)

Thanks, I love what's happening in Ubuntu. So I will definitely wait.
On Apr 22, 2015 7:16 PM, "Olivier Tilloy" <email address hidden>
wrote:

> It’s not hard to fix, but there have been other priorities which prevented
> this one from making its way into RTM until now.
> Now RTM is locked down until it is rebased on vivid, which will happen
> very soon (next OTA update), at which point you will get the fonts
> installed by default. Sorry that it’s taking so long, just a tiny bit more
> patience :)
>
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> Title:
> RTM r3 why is Nepali Unicode texts not displaying in browser app
>
> Status in Web Browser App:
> Invalid
> Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu RTM:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> In browser app including facebook and google+ web app nepali unicode
> texts are displayed as rectangle boxes instead of actual texts.
> Doesn't it support unicode?
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/webbrowser-app/+bug/1378184/+subscriptions
>