Bug 90500
| Summary: | Hebrew unicode section of Nimbus Mono L is broken | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dov Grobgeld <dov> |
| Component: | urw-fonts | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-06-12 21:44:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Seems to be fixed in 2.1 that has a newer upstream version of the urw fonts. |
Description of problem: The font "Nimbus Mono L" included in RH9 only defines the first 16 characters of the Hebrew alphabet (which contains 26 characters including the final forms) starting at U+05D0. If this font is chosen for the display of Hebrew text through fontconfig the result looks very strange, as part of the text will be shown in part Nimbus Mono L and part in some other fallback font. This property of the font may be verified e.g. by pfaedit or by gucharmap. What is interesting is that the bold, the italic, and the bold-italic versions of these fonts don't define the Hebrew unicode section at all. I think the correct solution is to erase the Hebrew glyphs from the font alltogether, as the Hebrew glyphs anyhow are butt ugly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): urw-fonts-2.0-29 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. run gedit 2. change the font to Nimbus mono L 3. Paste the sequence of the Hebrew alphabet into gedit: ××××××××××××××סעפרקרשת Actual results: The text is shown in two different fonts Expected results: One font Additional info: