| Summary: | Modifier Arrowhead glyphs swapped in some DejaVu fonts | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Andrew Johnson <anj> | ||||||
| Component: | dejavu-fonts | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> | ||||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | eng-i18n-bugs | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-10-06 05:05:41 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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Description
Andrew Johnson
2011-04-07 15:43:34 UTC
Since RHEL 6.1 External Beta has begun, and this bug remains unresolved, it has been rejected as it is not proposed as exception or blocker. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Hi Andrew, I had a look and it seems that Dejavu Serif does not provide glyphs for those codepoints. Could you check again with gucharmap to see which font is rendering them incorrectly. Thanks Not sure how to get the Condensed versions to appear in gucharmap but at least in gedit with Dejavu Condensed Sans and Serif the glyphs look ok too. BTW you don't have dejavu-lcg-*fonts installed by any chance? Anyway I am not able to reproduce this problem so far. I'm using GNOME Character Map version 2.28.2, based on Unicode 5.1. It allows me to select any of the fonts I mentioned, and says that the incorrect glyphs are definitely from the DejaVu Sans font (I assume that's what the font name means when I hold down the Shift key). It's probably some internal mapping from code-point to glyph that I don't claim to understand that's actually at fault. I hadn't checked the fonts in the other cases and you're right, with DejaVu Serif selected the correct character is displayed from the STIXGeneral font, and I've also seen the correct characters from Linux Libertine. With DejaVu Serif Condensed it uses DejaVu Sans to display the character, explaining why that also exhibits the problem. I see it in gedit as well as with CharMap. It's possible that a newer release of the dejavu-sans-fonts RPM has this fixed already, it's not a real issue for me, I just wanted to get it fixed for someone who might need it. I do not have any dejavu-lgc-sans-fonts installed. Thanks for providing more information. (In reply to comment #5) > I'm using GNOME Character Map version 2.28.2 Me too. > It allows > me to select any of the fonts I mentioned, and says that the incorrect glyphs > are definitely from the DejaVu Sans font (I assume that's what the font name > means when I hold down the Shift key). Ok, thanks. It renders ok for me though. It shouldn't really matter but what language (locale) are you using for your Gnome desktop? Perhaps you could try testing from a fresh user a/c just in case something in your account that might be causing a problem? > It's possible that a newer release of the dejavu-sans-fonts RPM has this fixed > already dejavu-fonts-2.30-2.el6 seems to be the latest build and also the one I am using. tux% echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 Sorry, I don't have the ability to create new accounts, this system is managed by our IT group. I tried with the KDE KCharSelect program, which gives me exactly the same results; these two characters are swapped with DejaVu Sans but not with the other fonts I have that contain these glyphs such as DejaVu Sans Condensed, Linux Libertine, STIXGeneral and Gentium. Oh well, a mystery — thanks for checking anyway. Yeah I am mystified too... perhaps you could attach a screenshot just for completeness? - I will try to revisit again one more time but still haven't been able to reproduce the problem. Created attachment 500710 [details]
Screenshot of Character Map showing glyphs
Created attachment 500980 [details]
screenshot-gucharmap-RHEL-6.1.png
gucharmap (en_US.UTF-8) screenshot from fresh RHEL 6.1 install.
Ok I think I am going to close this bug for lack of being able to reproduce. If anyone knows how to reproduce this issue please reopen and I am happy to look into it further. |