Bug 473481

Summary: Blurriness of Greek letter m (U+03BC) in Liberation Sans Regular
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Holger Levsen <holger>
Component: liberation-fontsAssignee: Caius Chance <K9>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: fonts-bugs, i18n-bugs, K9, mcepl, nikos.asimakis
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URL: http://bugs.debian.org/506469
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Description Holger Levsen 2008-11-28 19:01:56 UTC 
From: "Nikos Asimakis" <nikos.asimakis>
To: submit.org
Subject: ugly greek letter m (U+03BC) in liberation sans regular
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:54:11 +0200

Package: ttf-liberation
Version: 1.04.92-1
Severity: normal

After updating to version 1.04.92-1 the character μ (U+03BC, GREEK
SMALL LETTER MU) appears ugly
when using Liberation Sans.

When using Liberation Sans Bold, Italic and all the variants of
Liberation Serif and Mono, μ appears OK.

You can see the problem in GNOME Character Map, when using Liberation
Sans as GNOME's default
application font and in Firefox.

I am attaching a small html to demonstrate the problem:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>Liberation Fonts Test</title>
</head>
<body>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Sans;">
  Liberation Sans<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Sans;font-weight:bold;">
  Liberation Sans Bold<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Sans;font-style:italic;">
  Liberation Sans Italic<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Sans;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">
  Liberation Sans Bold Italic<br />μμμ</p>
  <hr />
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Serif;">
  Liberation Serif<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Serif;font-weight:bold;">
  Liberation Serif Bold<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Serif;font-style:italic;">
  Liberation Serif Italic<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Serif;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">
  Liberation Serif Bold Italic<br />μμμ</p>
  <hr />
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Mono;">
  Liberation Mono<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Mono;font-weight:bold;">
  Liberation Mono Bold<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Mono;font-style:italic;">
  Liberation Mono Italic<br />μμμ</p>
  <p style="font-family:Liberation Mono;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">
  Liberation Mono Bold Italic<br />μμμ</p>
</body>
</html>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=el_GR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ttf-liberation depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

ttf-liberation recommends no packages.

ttf-liberation suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
Comment 1 Holger Levsen 2008-11-28 19:02:38 UTC 
orignally filed as http://bugs.debian.org/506469
Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-28 19:39:58 UTC 
Created attachment 325034 [details]
test case

I am attaching testcase as attachment, but I am not sure what the reporter means -- the letter looks to me roughly same in any Liberation font I have (liberation-fonts-1.04.90-1.fc10.noarch).

Switching to ASSIGNED so that developers have responsibility to do whatever they want to do with it.
Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2008-11-28 19:44:07 UTC 
Created attachment 325035 [details]
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Comment 4 Holger Levsen 2008-11-28 20:08:36 UTC 
Created attachment 325036 [details]
this is how it looks here...

this is how it looks here...
Comment 5 Caius Chance 2008-12-03 00:42:15 UTC 
Please kindly confirm if that is fixed:

https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.93.devel.tar.gz
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/liberation-fonts-1.04.93.devel.zip
Comment 6 Nikos Asimakis 2008-12-04 22:05:10 UTC 
I tested version 1.04.93 and the problem with U+03BC is fixed.

Thank you.
Comment 7 Caius Chance 2008-12-09 01:05:17 UTC 
Close as resolved.