Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 274801
Chinese font between 9pt to 12pt does not display correctly in gedit
Last modified: 2008-06-16 22:18:48 EDT
Description of problem: I used NSimSun Chinese font (a ttf file I copied from Windows environment) in FC7 and especially in gedit. Chinese characters did not display at all when choosing size between 9pt to 12pt, whereas below 9pt or above 12 pt it displayed normally. One possible cause is that I set antialias to off on *all* fonts when the size is equal to or below 12pt. But this does-not-display symptom is not present on other fonts I tried except with NSimSun or SimSun. I attached a few screen shots to demonstrate the symptom. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontconfig-2.4.2-3.fc7 freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: In Gedit, setting the font to NSimSun and font size to 10, and open a file containing Chinese characters. Actual results: Chinese characters do not display at all Expected results: Chinese characters should show up in the window. Additional info:
Created attachment 184941 [details] zip file containing a text file with chinese characters (in UTF8) and three jpeg images with different font size settings
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