Bug 1297374

Summary: after selecting a font for view, the "Sample" tab does not load sample text correctly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Emily Tench <emily>
Component: fontmatrixAssignee: Parag Nemade <pnemade>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: emily, fonts-bugs, i18n-bugs, pnemade
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Description Emily Tench 2016-01-11 10:43:42 UTC
Created attachment 1113570 [details]
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Description of problem:

after selecting a font for view, the "Sample" tab does not load sample text correctly - font displays correctly, playground works correctly, but sample text looks like it may be an error message or fragment of code

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

fontmatrix-0.9.99-22.r1218.fc23

How reproducible:

very


Steps to Reproduce:
1. open fontmatrix
2. double click any font
3. "Sample" tab is selected by default and shows incorrect sample text

Actual results:

screenshot included : displays commas, parenthesis, semicolons, etc.


Expected results:

loading a meaningful sample of glyphs used in font, or text configured in preferences


Additional info:

I believe this was working properly in previous releases, but I am not 100% certain. The current user id was created as a clean home directory on a new install of Fedora Workstation 23 - so no settings have been carried over in the home directory from other distributions or from previous uses of fontmatrix.

Comment 1 Emily Tench 2016-01-11 11:25:41 UTC
current release source from fontmatrix repository (not the source rpm) compiles and runs correctly.

Comment 2 Parag Nemade 2016-01-14 14:52:23 UTC
Can you share what font you selected on which locale? I need this to reproduce this bug. Also take a screenshot of what sample text is looking for you?

I think font will render the selected language's sample text only when that font contains glyphs to render that sample text.

E.g. I selected Devanagari language font and sample text Hindi and rendering of sample text becomes readable. Otherwise you will see only commas, parenthesis etc...

Comment 3 Parag Nemade 2016-04-23 07:15:47 UTC
Please reopen if you still see this bug by providing requested information above.