Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 183988
cs_CZ glyph substitution for monospace has strange letters in it
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:26 EST
Description of problem: Using monospace font (that is I assume really a bitstream vera sans mono) in FC5t3 shows letters from either different type of font or the font includes incorrect characters. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. switch to e.g. Czech language locale (cs_CZ.utf8) 2. start gnome-terminal 3. choose Upravit/Profily/Default/Upravit/Pismo: Monospace (similar you can find under gnome font settings starting gnome-font-properties) Actual results: See attached image Expected results: See attached image Additional info: The correct result is shown from FC4 install.
Created attachment 125642 [details] monospace FC5t3
Created attachment 125643 [details] monospace_FC4.png
from the terminal what is the output of > fc-match "Monospace" ?
Then I do not understand it - this command says > fc-match "Monospace" n022003l.pfb: "Nimbus Mono L" "Regular" But when I check box in gnome-terminal to use system terminal font OR I choose monospace OR choose Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font from menu then in all cases it clearly shows the incorrect content of Bitstream font. (BTW: FC4 terminal uses Luxi Mono as monospace, and bitstream vera sans mono also has similar (not same) strange letters). The font.conf defines: <!-- Monospace faces --> <alias> <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family> <family>Courier</family> <family>Courier New</family> <family>Andale Mono</family> <family>Luxi Mono</family> <family>Nimbus Mono L</family> <family>NSimSun</family> <family>FreeMono</family> <default><family>monospace</family></default> </alias> AND <family>monospace</family> <prefer> <family>Luxi Mono</family> <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family> <family>Andale Mono</family> <family>Cumberland AMT</family> <family>Courier New</family> etc. So to sum it: Definitely Bitstream Vera Sans Mono has some troubles with accented letters (missing and replaced from Nimbus Mono L?). It is used in gnome as monospace font even though the fc-match says that monospace should be Nimbus Mono L.
I found this: Installing xorg-x11-fonts-truetype that contains Luxi* family of fonts and manualy (!) adding /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF (adding complete /usr/share/X11/fonts is not good idea - bitmap fonts are then used e.g. in Firefox which is really ugly now) into local.conf results in fc-match monospace saying "luximr.ttf: "Luxi Mono" "Regular". During digging around I found all fonts from bitstream family have incorrect letters (substituted from different font?). They are probably not utf8?!
Well, looking at it myself in cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale with default configuration in latest rawhide and everything looks ok. The Bitstream Vera fonts and others haven't changed content, though your screenshot does look like Bistream Vera Sans Mono with missing glyphs provided from Nimbus Mono L, so glyph substitution looks a bit addled. If the problem persists in current rawhide, it's likely a fontconfig issue
I have latest FC5t3 devel packages. It is default desktop instalation with no system changes (installed en_US, switched to cs_CZ). The only change I did was I installed Luxi fonts and add them to font.conf (this I did after I found the strange letters). The result is that letters in Bistream fonts are replaces by those from Luxi fonts as these are now default Sans, Serif and Monospace. I'd like to point that I found the same problem is present in FC4 (which is install all installation).
Waste of time reporting.. closing as outdated.