Bug 78364

Summary:	bad characters in language selection
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Balažic <david.balazic>
Component:	pango	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description David Balažic 2002-11-21 19:53:02 UTC

Description of Problem:

When I want to select a different language in the gfx login screen and click on 
the word "Language", a list of languages is displayed, where are some errors in 
the font or characters :

 - no arabic letter is displayed
 - chinese , japan and korean letters are displayed as a rectangle with four 
hex digits inside, two digits on top and two on bottom

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

gdm-2.4.0.7-13
XFree86***-4.2.0-72


How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click "Language" on the X11 login screen
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:

some chars are missing or not correct

Expected Results:

Correct arab, chinese, japan and korean chars are drawn

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-22 00:26:02 UTC

This is a function of which fonts you have installed.
We don't want to force people to install CJK or Arabic fonts.

Maybe pango could provide some API to say "can we render this string" 
but failing that or requiring everyone to install all fonts there's not much to
do with this bug.