[Freefont-bugs] Malayalam subset is terrible

[Nandakumar Edamana]

Hello,

I am using the latest version of freefonts available from official 
Debian and Ubuntu repos. LibreOffice and Firefox renderes Malayalam in a 
broken way while using fonts from freefont. The dangerous part is, 
freefont is given preference over Malayalam-first fonts in some 
applications, which means the system cannot render Malayalam correctly 
even though it has good up-to-date Malayalam fonts installed on it.

When asked, Santhosh Thottingal (http://thottingal.in/), a font expert, 
said that freefont has outdated Malayalam subset and I should be 
reporting it.

I request the developers to take this issue seriously. Please update the 
set or release a newer version with Malayalam totally removed.

Nandakumar Edamana