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Created attachment 1192624 [details] kate-vs-gedit.png An Old Hungarian font can be downloaded here: https://github.com/OldHungarian/old-hungarian-font/releases The OldHungarian_0.5.zip file contains 2 fonts, use the “_Full.ttf” version for best results: OldHungarian_0.5/OldHungarian.ttf OldHungarian_0.5/OldHungarian_Full.ttf In GTK programs like gedit, Old Hungarian is displayed correctly using this font. KDE programs like kate show only replacement boxes. See screenshot. On the left side in the screenshot is kate, on the right side is gedit. The text file displayed is: mfabian@ari:~ $ cat rovas.txt 𐳀 𐳂 ع ى א ב a b mfabian@ari:~ $ I’ll attach this text file in the next comment. The first line of the file is Old Hungarian. The second line is Arabic. The third line is Hebrew. The fourth line is Latin. (Old Hungarian is a right-to-left script).
Created attachment 1192625 [details] rovas.txt The text file used in the kate-vs-gedit.png screenshot.
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The problem is unchanged in Fedora 27.
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Fedora 27 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-11-30. Fedora 27 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.
The problem is unchanged in F29.
It appears this bug was missed in the EOL closure for F27 on 2018-11-30. If this bug still exists on supported versions, please reopen and update the version. If you cannot update the version, please needinfo the assignee.