Bug 188225

Summary:	Dejavu-fonts 2.4 broke my tcl application's font
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Maxim Britov <maxim.britov>
Component:	dejavu-fonts	Assignee:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Maxim Britov 2006-04-07 08:30:25 UTC

Description of problem:
I use tkabber (tcl/tk application) for xmpp messaging.
Updateing to latest package 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 (now) broke tkabber interface.
All in tkabber interface looks "l i k e  t h i s ".
For interface i use in tkabber config:
set font "-misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1"
option add *font "-misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
userDefault
and it works fine with 2.3 package from fc5.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dejavu-fonts-2.4.1-2.fc6
dejavu-fonts-fontconfig-2.4.1-2.fc6


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.update dejavu-fonts to 2.4.1
2.run tkabber
3.look broken interface :(
  
Actual results:
Broken interface

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Nicolas Mailhot 2006-04-07 11:16:21 UTC

DejaVu is not intended to be used with the old legacy core font system. Dejavu
is a font with wide coverage and modern truetype features and will probably
break the old backend in several strange and wonderful ways. Unless you can
reproduce this with a fontconfig app, I'll mark this as NOTABUG.

1. we intentionnaly do not register dejavu in XFS
2. fonts actually registered in XFS are not intended to be used with iso10646-1
encoding and are broken up in many encoding-specific files
3. any sane internationalised GUI app switched to fontconfig long ago (why am I
not surprised it's not the case for tcl/tk?)