Bug 91139
Summary: | ttmkfdir creates wrong entries for "Arial Unicode MS" and similar | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Petr Pajas <pajas> |
Component: | ttmkfdir | Assignee: | Yu Shao <yshao> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-09-10 02:53:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Petr Pajas
2003-05-19 11:46:06 UTC
The reason i am using -c- is because for X core font backend, -c- would improve the performance a lot compared with -p-, are you having any problem with using -p- at the moment? I don't understand the X internals, to really know what's going on and what's the actual difference between -p- and -c-, but it can be simply observed that -c- is really a bad choice for this particular font. To your question: No problems with -p-. The font is displayed proportional which is what it should be. For some applications (eg. perlTk based ones), it takes a while to load that font (arial unicode ms) but I guess that's ok as Tk seems to be searching all available glyphs and the font is 20Mb large. All other applications (KDE, mozilla, GTK2) work smoothly with this font set to -p-. With -c-, it seems that perlTk based apps also load fast, but that's of no use as the font is completely unusable being displayed as monospaced (or something like that) with very large gaps between individual letters. Since arialuni.ttf is one of the rare fonts with almost compete unicode set it is a pitty it doesn't work right in RH by default. BTW, changing -c- to -p- manually in fonts.scale is a little tricky as ttmkfdir is called in xfs init.d script on boot time so one has to either comment it out or do some sed work right in the init script. So fixing this in ttmkfdir would be a great help. HTH, thanks. Petr It has been very long, I will close it for now, if needed for current releases, please reopen it. Sorry for the delay. |