Bug 113266 - Syriac fonts uses non standard codepoints screwing things up.
Summary: Syriac fonts uses non standard codepoints screwing things up.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: XFree86
Version: 1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
high
high
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Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-11 15:46 UTC by Mattias Ellert
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-12 16:10:17 UTC
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This is an example of the bug. (53.14 KB, image/png)
2004-01-11 16:02 UTC, Mattias Ellert
no flags Details

Description Mattias Ellert 2004-01-11 15:46:13 UTC
Description of problem:
The Syriac fonts has some accented Latin letters and Syriac
presentation forms on codepoints reserved for other letters.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-42

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type U+0293, U+0294, U+0299, U+029A or any character in the range
U+0350..U+03CF
  
Actual results:
You get G with line below, g with line below, R with line below, r
with line below and a bunch of Syriac presentaion forms instead of the
expected letters.

Expected results:
You expect correct letters.

Additional info:
This bug prevents the correct display of Greek text, so it is really
serious.

Comment 1 Mattias Ellert 2004-01-11 16:02:42 UTC
Created attachment 96881 [details]
This is an example of the bug.

Sorry, I wrote R/r with bar below instead of P/p with bar below in the bug
description.

Comment 2 Mike A. Harris 2004-01-12 16:10:17 UTC
We (Red Hat) do not design, edit, modify fonts or do any form of
fontography work.  The fonts included with the distribution are
included on an as-is basis, and many (most) of the fonts have
licenses which permit widspread distribution, but do not permit
modification and redistribution.

If you discover flaws in any particular font file, please contact
the original author and copyright owner of the given font file
directly, if you find any kind of errors in a font.  Alternatively,
you can contact XFree86.org via their bugzilla located at
http://bugs.xfree86.org, however they do not do fontography work
to my knowledge either, and are also subject to the licensing
restrictions that do not permit modification and redistribution,
and are likely to redirect you to the original font author and
copyright holder as well.

Closing WONTFIX



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