Devanagari fonts not rendering properly on 20.04 systemwide

Adnan

3/23/23, 6:22 PM

Fonts are being rendered properly on browsers. The actual problem is Libreoffice Calc where devanagari fonts aren't being rendered properly:

Here you can see even if the cell properly converts the "Halant", the formula bar doesn't. The only workaround for now is to set default interface font in tweaks to other unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS. But I don't want Arial as my system font. Is there any way to assign Lohit Devanagari or other hindi font the primary font wherever hindi language is used? I've already done what this suggests to no avail.

Edit: on running fc-list :lang=hi family i can see FreeSans and FreeSerif being listed as hindi fonts, of which FreeSans typed hindi looks exactly like what the formula bar on Calc looks like. Is there a way to set other font in Libreoffice instead of FreeSans?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson

3/24/23, 5:26 AM

Is LibreOffice installed as a .deb file or a snap?

Adnan

3/24/23, 12:51 PM

It's installed as a flatpak.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

3/24/23, 3:34 PM

I see. If I was you I'd uninstall the flatpak, install the `libreoffice` .deb package, and see if it makes a difference.

Adnan

3/24/23, 5:25 PM

The deb package is working as I wanted. What's going on? What's wrong with flatpak version?

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

3/25/23, 6:34 AM

Don't know, sorry. I know nothing about flatpak. If you really want to know, I'd suggest that you submit a new question about that specifically.

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Adnan

5/15/23, 8:50 PM

Seems like flatpak apps don't seem to pick up fontconfig files, so replacing them with native deb packages will sort out the problem. However, oftentimes on new installations the font order mess up, so I made a conf file which makes specified font (Lohit Devanagari in this case) default for Hindi, and also puts some fallback fonts for your system when you don't want Lohit Devanagari to become default font for English SSA subtitles:

mkdir -p /.config/fontconfig/conf.d/ && gedit /.config/fontconfig/conf.d/10-hindi.conf

and paste the following:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
    <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
    <fontconfig>
        <match>
            <test compare="contains" name="lang">
                <string>hi</string>
            </test>
            <edit mode="prepend" name="family">
                <string>Lohit Devanagari</string>
            </edit>
        </match>
    
        <alias>
            <family>sans-serif</family>
                <prefer>
                    <family>Ubuntu</family>
                    <family>Noto Sans Devanagari</family>
                    <family>Lohit Devanagari</family>
                    <family>Mukta</family>
                    <family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
                </prefer>
        </alias>
    
        <alias>
            <family>serif</family>
                <prefer>
                    <family>Noto Serif</family>
                    <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
                    <family>Liberation Serif</family>
                    <family>Noto Serif Devanagari</family>
                    <family>Lohit Devanagari</family>
                    <family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
                </prefer>
        </alias>
    
        <alias>
            <family>monospace</family>
                <prefer>
                    <family>Ubuntu mono</family>
                    <family>Noto Sans Mono</family>
                    <family>DejaVu Sans Mono</family>
                    <family>Liberation Mono</family>
                    <family>Noto Sans Devanagari</family>
                    <family>Lohit Devanagari</family>
                    <family>Arial Unicode MS</family>
                </prefer>
        </alias>
    </fontconfig>

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I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Devanagari fonts not rendering properly on 20.04 systemwide

TH: แบบอักษร Devanagari แสดงผลไม่ถูกต้องใน 20.04 ทั้งระบบ

RO: Fonturile Devanagari nu se redau corect pe 20.04 la nivel de sistem

RU: Шрифты Devanagari не отображаются должным образом в системе 20.04

VI: Phông chữ Devanagari không hiển thị chính xác trên 20.04 trên toàn hệ thống

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