Setup Devanagari Fonts on (Arch) Linux

setup-devanagari-fonts.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e

echo "📦 Installing recommended Devanagari fonts..."
sudo pacman -S --needed noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-extra --noconfirm

echo "🛠 Creating Fontconfig override for Hindi and Nepali..."
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig

cat > ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <match>
    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
      <string>hi</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="prepend">
      <string>Noto Sans Devanagari</string>
      <string>Lohit Devanagari</string>
    </edit>
  </match>

  <match>
    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
      <string>ne</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="prepend">
      <string>Noto Sans Devanagari</string>
      <string>Lohit Devanagari</string>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>
EOF

echo "🔄 Rebuilding font cache..."
fc-cache -fv

echo "✅ Done! Verifying..."
echo "Hindi font:   $(fc-match :lang=hi)"
echo "Nepali font:  $(fc-match :lang=ne)"