Change 88430 had a related patch set uploaded by Reedy:
Add ttf-sinhala-lklug to imagescalers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/88430

Change 88430 merged by Dzahn:
Add ttf-sinhala-lkmug to imagescalers

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/88430

we are using "ttf-sinhala-lkmug" instead of "ttf-sinhala-lklug" now because on precise -lklug is "N: Can't select versions from package 'ttf-sinhala-lklug' as it is purely virtual" and -lkmug is the "dummy transitional package". Since puppet does not install recommends we are not getting "defoma" which is deprecated.

checked a puppet run on random imagescaler (mw75).

notice: /Stage[main]/Imagescaler::Packages::Fonts/Package[ttf-sinhala-lkmug]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'latest'

ii fonts-lklug-sinhala 0.5.4-1 Unicode Sinhala font by Lanka Linux User Group
ii ttf-sinhala-lkmug 0.5.4-1 transitional dummy package

in a few minutes all puppet runs should have finished, then please try again and confirm if it's resolved thanks

Sampath, i'll claim it's resolved :) I purged and reloaded https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%94%E0%B7%80:Geoz_wb_si.svg and i see the characters now and afaict it looks good. please confirm. -- Daniel

sampathsris wrote:

Hi Daniel, I can confirm that the problem is resolved. Apologies for taking time to confirm.
Sampath

There seems to be a similar problem with Devanagari fonts. See for example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Code2000_Devanagari_va%2Bi.svg