Bug 326291

Summary:	Some URW fonts include erroneous glyph, fixed upstream
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nick Lamb <redhat>
Component:	urw-fonts	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	7
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URL:	ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/release/urw-fonts-1.0.7pre43.tar.bz2
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Fixed In Version:	urw-fonts-2.4-1.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Nick Lamb 2007-10-10 13:10:03 UTC

Description of problem:

The URW-fonts package in Fedora 7 erroneously includes font metadata which uses
the ogonek (a Polish diacritic, ie an accent) as U+FFFD the replacement
character in Unicode. This probably happened as a result of a bug in some
non-Unicode capable software years ago.

However it seems to be fixed in the latest version of these fonts, which I
linked as the URL for this bug report.

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

urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.1

How reproducible:

This is a bug in the data, it is 100% reproducible for me

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View a web or other document which uses the URW fonts
2. Find somewhere where corruption or other error introduced U+FFFD
3. Look at the glyph shown
  
Actual results:

Notice that it appears as a curious comma-like accent, the ogonek!

Expected results:

It should be a question mark in a diamond or similar glyph as specified in
Unicode. Some other fonts provide such glyphs, if they do not then fallback
provides such a glyph from another font.


I suggest that simply updating to a newer version of the upstream font package
should fix this problem.

Comment 1 Nick Lamb 2007-10-10 13:12:39 UTC

Oops, I forgot to mention that the specific fonts affected by this bug were

URW Gothic L, Nimbus Sans L, and Century Schoolbook L

Other fonts were not affected by this erroneous glyph

Comment 2 Nick Lamb 2007-11-15 09:08:18 UTC

This problem is fixed in Fedora 8, with the package

urw-fonts-2.4-1.fc8