Bug 84422
| Summary: | problem with greek fonts in login screen | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta | Reporter: | Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx> |
| Component: | fontconfig | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | phoebe | CC: | hp, otaylor |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-02-16 23:52:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The font configuration is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf what's going wrong is hard to say since we don't include any greek fonts to test with. does "gedit" look ok or are all apps messed up? gedit nautilus fileroller and all others work ok see shots http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe1.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe2.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe3.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe4.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe2.jpg The font configuration is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf this apply for login screen? gedit nautilus fileroller and all others work ok see shots http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe1.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe2.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe3.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe4.jpg http://users.forthnet.gr/her/charosn/redhellas/phoebe2.jpg The font configuration is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf this apply for login screen? There's also a gdm theme involved, see /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/Bluecurve.xml perhaps it specifies a problematic font. Did you have to explicitely set the font for the GNOME UI in the font preferences dialog? Can you get a screenshot of the GDM screen? Doing something like: Xnest :1 -ac DISPLAY=:1 DOING_GDM_DEVELOPMENT=1 gdmgreeter from the command line should start up the greeter in a window. havoc problem is with Bluecurve I edit circle's theme circles.xml file and changed Sans to Albany Result: all is Ok now :) But the same is not possible with Bluecurve.xml (see the note at the top of file). So what we need is a way that user can change fonts in Bluecurve.xml file Any advice? Nikos Charonitakis If changing Sans to Albany works that indicates that your fonts.conf is wrong. "Sans" and "sans-serif" are required to be a valid font for all languages. So the correct fix, rather than editing Bluecurve.xml, is to add a valid greek font to the "Sans" definition in fonts.conf (I'm not sure if Albany is sans-serif, if it is a serif font you can either lie to the font system and get serif fonts everywhere, or you could add a sans-serif font to fonts.conf instead) At least I think this is right, Owen will probably correct me if it isn't. Yep, if you don't have any Greek fonts in your Sans/Serif aliases, fontconfig will pick something fairly random and probably undesirable. Note that you shouldn't edit fonts.conf but rather create an /etc/fonts/local.conf. OK, so it may make sense to add or ask Keith to add some common Greek fonts to the default fonts.conf, but otherwise I don't think there's a bug here we can address. Moving to fontconfig for decision on upstream or wontfix or what. Basically, I think the fonts.conf we ship should handle the fonts we ship, and if you modify your local font configuration, you'll have to add a local.conf. Some additinal info Another redhat phoebe user reported that in .fonts-cache1 file cant se |el| code in msft true type fonts although they include greek characters. So he couldnt see in mozilla any greek fonts choices when he selected greek lang He solved problem modifying el.orth and created fclang.h and recompiling fontconfig.rpm --- el.orth~ 2002-07-12 21:05:58.000000000 +0000 +++ el.orth 2003-01-26 00:28:05.000000000 +0000 @@ -22,9 +22,6 @@ # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. # # Greek (EL) -0374-0375 -037a -037e 0384-038a 038c 038e-03a1 also they made this report: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, Now that, with the new releases of RedHat, fontconfig is starting to be used by a lot of people, a problem has been reported with regard to recognising fonts as being suitable for the greek language. In particular, it seems that fontconfig fails to accept the majority of fonts as being adequate for this language. It seems that the problem is caused by the inclusion of four reduntant characters in the greek orthography information: 0374 GREEK NUMERAL SIGN 0375 GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN 037A GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI 037E GREEK QUESTION MARK Out of those, the first two are only needed for greek numerals, sheldom used today; the third is only needed for ancient Greek, and the fourth is considered to be equivalent with 003B (semicolon), so it doesn't matter much. So it would be best to eliminate these four characters from the greek orthography, as shown by the attached (trivial) patch to el.orth. This problem was first reported by Sarantis Paskalis <sarantis.uoa.gr>. I observed it myself as well, so I took the liberty to report it here. Please "Reply to All", as I am not subscribed in this list. Thanks, Vasilis -- Vasilis Vasaitis vvas.auth.gr +306976604701 i confirm the case for mozilla and .fonts-cache1 ----------------------------------------------- ....|da|de|en|eo|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|.... ---------------------------------------------- no el code finaly i can see these fat :) Greek fonts of Bluecurve theme using these rebuilds of phoebe fontconfig.src.rpm http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~paskalis/rpms/fontconfig-2.1-3.1.i386.rpm http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~paskalis/rpms/fontconfig-devel-2.1-3.1.i386.rpm Is possible changes to be included in forthcoming release? Nikos It was reported here as bug 83102 The resolution was to let it be fixed upstream. It is now in fontconfig CVS (according to http://fontconfig.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16) Please consider upgrading the orthography file el.orth to make non-Red Hat shipped fonts work for Greek. Some arguments for it: - The fix is correct. - It is already in fontconfig CVS. - If it is in a stable release, it will affect many more users. - It will only be temporary, until the next version of fontconfig is included in the distribution. There is also a .src.rpm with the necessary patches if rebuilding is problematic: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~paskalis/rpms/fontconfig-2.1-3.1.src.rpm The above src.rpm contains some earlier patches. If you decide to include it, I can prepare patches for the latest version of fontconfig and orthography files. Thanks, Sarantis |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: in previous rh version 8.0 no greek font were shown at bottom of login screen instead we see something like that > > > Now in phoebe we can see greek translated messages everywhere in the login screen but they are tiny and thin and almost unreadable... where these fonts properties are defined? Notes i ve installed greek fonts(msft) with old and new method and with gtkrc.mine for gtk1.2 everywhere in the X system they work ok Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install redhat beta phoebe 2. 3. Additional info: