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FS#352 - xetex and ICU - rendering fails

Attached to Project: [Repo Games & Apps]
Opened by Sebin Abraham Jacob (sebinaj) - Monday, 03 October 2011, 19:57 GMT
Last edited by Anke Boersma (abveritas) - Sunday, 02 September 2012, 12:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Backend / Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version Edn
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

A bug accidentally introduced in ICU causes rendering failure in indic language (specifically Malayalam) text being converted to pdf using kile. Compilation of the tex file is done with the help of xetex which comes bundled with texlive-most. The bug causes some post based symbols in ligates to shift to pre based positions.

Here is the bug report in ICU: http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/8198#no3

They haven't fixed it for long. Can we have a distro specific fix so that, xetex is compiled against the bug free ICU?

(This has been done with libicu in the case of libre office previously)

forum posting regarding this bug: http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=5790
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Closed by  Anke Boersma (abveritas)
Sunday, 02 September 2012, 12:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  No further response from submitter
Comment by Sebin Abraham Jacob (sebinaj) - Monday, 03 October 2011, 20:03 GMT Comment by Anke Boersma (abveritas) - Monday, 03 October 2011, 21:40 GMT
This patch http://gitorious.org/chakra-packages/core/blobs/testing/icu/icu.8198.revert.icu5431.patch

Should have taken care of the issue, will do further research.
Comment by Sebin Abraham Jacob (sebinaj) - Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 13:20 GMT
@abveritas Could you confirm this bug after testing and update xetex with the patch applied? latex is compiled against its own version of icu
Comment by Anke Boersma (abveritas) - Monday, 30 July 2012, 00:09 GMT
Please can you check the texlive packages in testing, and report back if the issue is finally fixed?

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