Bug 91646
| Summary: | Spaces for Periods in Arial-like fonts | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Rob Lake <rlake> |
| Component: | mozilla | Assignee: | Owen Taylor <otaylor> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://sikpigs.net/images/notice-no-periods.jpg | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-11-08 19:08:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This has nothing to do with XFree86. As an additional datapoint, GNOME doesn't use xfs. Here are some examples with arial font not behaving in GNOME terminal, running in GNOME not WindowMaker. Mozilla in bug URL is running in WindowMaker but exhibits the same problem in GNOME. http://sikpigs.net/images/gnome-terminal-not-arial.jpg http://sikpigs.net/images/gnome-terminal-arial.jpg I also tried using arial font in The GIMP and there is no period, comma, aposthrophe, semi-colon, etc. Perhaps this is problem with ttfonts rather than mozilla or XFree86. It's probably not Mozilla-specific, no. Over to Owen. What version of Arial exactly? On my system with a Windows XP partition, I don't seem to see this. Recently I found that by commenting the <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> line in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, the problem no longer exists. I would love to tell what version of Arial it is, but would require a pointer. In /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, etc. are aliases for the sans-serif family. Using Verdana or Helvetica fonts also produces the problem, which may or may not help to determine the problem. A good way of telling what fonts an app are using is to look at /proc/<pid>/maps, since each font will be memory-mapped. The GUI font in your screenshot looks like the Red Hat standard Luxi Sans, so whatever other font is open would be the font that it is using. Mozilla screenshots would really be more useful, since using a proportionally spaced font like Arial in a terminal widget is expected to give bad rendering (see the overlapping @ signs, etc.) Here is another Mozilla screenshot: http://sikpigs.net/images/mozilla-font-prob.jpg This is the map file from the Mozilla proc: 41f52000-41f56000 r--p 00000000 03:03 738888 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvR08.pcf.gz 43d98000-43da1000 r--p 00000000 03:03 2561404 /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/Type1/ariam___.pfb 43dad000-43dc0000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1920823 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l047013t.pfa 44dd4000-44de6000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1920833 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048016t.pfa 45032000-4503b000 r--p 00000000 03:03 2561402 /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/Type1/ariabi__.pfb 4503b000-45056000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1132854 /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb And this from gnome-terminal proc (using Arial): 40fad000-40faf000 r--p 00000000 03:03 738891 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz 40fb1000-40fc3000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1920831 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048013t.pfa 40fc3000-40fd6000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1920823 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l047013t.pfa 40fe1000-40ff3000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1920833 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048016t.pfa 40ff3000-41005000 r--p 00000000 03:03 1920835 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/l048033t.pfa 41005000-4100e000 r--p 00000000 03:03 2561401 /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/Type1/ariab___.pfb Can you attach your fonts.conf? Have you made any local modifications to it or created a ~/.fonts.conf? /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ is not supposed to be in the list of directories for the Red Hat configuration. No information, closing. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Using arial font in applications like mozilla and gnome-terminal displays spaces for period and apostrophes. Currently using WindowMaker, but problem exists in GNOME as well. Re-installed all font packages on system and restarted xfs with no success. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start mozilla or gnome-terminal 2. Type '.' or ''' 3. profit? Additional info: