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Test TileMill+harfbuzz package
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  1. Download and install Ubuntu Saucy (13.10). If you want to use AWS to launch an instance the ami-4843740d is available for us-west-1. See others at http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

  2. Install TileMill via PPA and bengali fonts:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mapnik/harfbuzz
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tilemill
sudo apt-get install ttf-bengali-fonts

Note: if not on ubuntu lohit bengali ttf can be downloaded from http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/earlyaccess/lohitbengali/v3/download.zip

Note: if TileMill is running on a remote machine see https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/guides/ubuntu-service/ for help accessing it.

  1. Install custom ttf or opentype fonts, test rendering, report issues to mapnik's github issues
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