Hello Everyone.
Today I was going through some texts which were written in Hindi. But when I tried to view them, they all are appearing distorted and broken.
I tried YaST-Language to add Hindi, but the process seems stuck:
and is not going further from 15 minutes since I started.
Where probably I am going wrong, and how should I proceed ?
You do not explain how you got the output you post (a major sin here). But I assumed it is created using Google Trnaslate. I tried the same here from LEAP 15.4:
As you see I get a different translation (namaskaar instead of hello), but the writing is correct. So something has broken your Devanagri text rendering.
I am using Firefox for this (another partner on your side you forgot to mention).
And no, I did not add the Hindi language because that has no use for this. This is about rendering these Devanagri characters (send to you in UTF-8) correct and has nothing to do with the language they may or may not try to express.
While I have no direct solution, this may help in cornering the origin of your problem.
Do you mean this package?
<https://software.opensuse.org/package/yast2-trans-hi?search_term=yast2-trans-hi>
If that’s the package you mean then, it’s only relevant for the system’s administrators – not the users …
If, you have Hindi users on the system then, you’ll need the Hindi spelling packages:
Please note that, as far as installed applications are concerned, provided the associated “-lang” packages are installed then, the systems users should be able to select Hindi as their Desktop language which, should also appear as the interface language for their applications.
I am also using Firefox.
From as much I learned from both of your viewpoints, I guess the issue is either with Firefox Settings, or I need to re-generate locales, perhaps ?
Again, IMO, this has nothing to do with locales. A program wants to show certain Unicode characters. This is only possible if there is at least one font installed that has the glyphs for these characters.
I do not have any extra locales. I only installed long ago the package indic-fonts to provide the glyphs (and the rules on how to add the matras). Maybe you have a different font with errors in it?
I have no knowledge of any Firefox setting that would brake this. Why should something like that exist?
Firefox here is 102.11.0esr .
Trying to underline the fact that this about fonts (and not about locale), I once had “replacements characters” for the Khmer script. I only installed khmeros-fonts and FF showed them.
Also
boven:/home/henk/test/unicode # ls
alles goed? hello öäüßÖÄÜ Œé⁶ Χαίρετε Здравствуйте Лшадсщ أهلا नमस्ते
boven:/home/henk/test/unicode #
shows that even names can be in Unicode and no, I do not have all those different locales active at the same moment.
Install following packages if they are not installed,
noto-sans-devanagari-fonts noto-serif-devanagari-fonts noto-sans-devanagari-ui-fonts
And make sure that under Firefox’s,
Settings => General => Fonts => Advanced => Fonts for Devanagari
are set to Noto Devanagari family.
Do you have a fontconfig folder in your /home/user/.config?
Try renaming or removing it. You need to logout and login.
Thanks for your advice. It seems that it worked :
Though, you can see that in the last word धन्यवाद, the line slightly distorted, but still it fixed up this problem.
Very-very thanks .
No it do not exists in the config folder.
Nice that it works OK now.
Strange thing (for me) is that I do not have any of those noto-devanagri font packages installed (only the indic-fonts) and that I do not see the problem.
A difference between LEAP and Tumbleweed or their different FF versions? That would point to a regression then.
I see it in the image of Google Translate as displayed in FF, but I do not see it in your text (quoted above) on my FF.
This folder is only mentioned if you invoke “fc-cache” – AFAICS, there’s no other documentation –
> fc-cache --really-force --verbose
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 12 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 398 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 29 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/ghostscript: caching, new cache contents: 52 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 168 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/texlive-lm: caching, new cache contents: 164 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 519 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/uni: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/xscreensaver: caching, new cache contents: 5 fonts, 0 dirs
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/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/???/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/???/.fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
>
Please note the following when you execute “fc-cache” –
Yes, that’s only appearing on Firefox. But copying those texts to anywhere else looks good…
And the Firefox version is 113.02.
From this I remembered that, is it possible to remove the package cache which might be remaining back despite that package has been removed by me ? Also, if we will update our system frequently, then also the cache of previous updates are stored, so can they be removed ?
# fc-match serif
LiberationSerif-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Serif" "Regular"
# fc-match sans-serif
LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans" "Regular"
# fc-match monospace
SourceCodePro-Regular.otf: "Source Code Pro" "Regular"
# rpm -qa |grep -i fonts
google-carlito-fonts-1.1.03.beta1-1.22.noarch
google-droid-fonts-20121204-3.3.1.noarch
patterns-fonts-fonts-20190130-1.15.x86_64
fonts-config-20200609+git0.42e2b1b-4.7.1.noarch
cantarell-fonts-0.303.1-150400.1.6.noarch
mkfontscale-1.1.2-1.23.x86_64
dejavu-fonts-2.37-1.21.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-core-7.6-13.6.1.noarch
google-caladea-fonts-1.002-1.22.noarch
ghostscript-fonts-std-9.06-14.3.1.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-7.6-13.6.1.noarch
liberation-fonts-1.07.4-2.13.noarch
google-opensans-fonts-1.0-1.21.noarch
adobe-sourcecodepro-fonts-2.030-1.30.noarch
Ich habe keine Idee was du möchtest. Das hier ist aber das Englische Teil des openSUSE Forums. Wir haben ein separates Teil für Deutschsprachigen.
It often pays to occasionally execute, either with the user “root” or a system administrator account, the following:
# fc-cache --really-force --system-only
Alternatively, with the user “root”, simply remove everything in ‘ /var/cache/fontconfig’ and then execute “fc-cache” …
मैं खुश हूँ की मैं आपकी मदद कर सका |
एतस्याः समस्यायाः विषये मम साहाय्यं कृत्वा धन्यवादः
You know the Sanskrit too 
I’m totally impressed 
Not much, just some basics which I learned in school, though I must say writing this on paper feels painful…
Yup, Devanagari can be a difficult script to write.
एतस्याः समस्यायाः विषये मम साहाय्यं कृत्वा धन्यवादः
The above is perfect. Not at all bad for someone who learned it at a basic level in school. Either your teacher was a genius or you were an exceptional learner.