Bug 78364 – bad characters in language selection

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Bug 78364 - bad characters in language selection

Summary:	bad characters in language selection

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	pango (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Owen Taylor
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Reported:	2002-11-21 14:53 EST by David Balažic
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:48 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-01-07 12:14:19 EST
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Description David Balažic 2002-11-21 14:53:02 EST

Description of Problem:

When I want to select a different language in the gfx login screen and click on 
the word "Language", a list of languages is displayed, where are some errors in 
the font or characters :

 - no arabic letter is displayed
 - chinese , japan and korean letters are displayed as a rectangle with four 
hex digits inside, two digits on top and two on bottom

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gdm-2.4.0.7-13
XFree86***-4.2.0-72


How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click "Language" on the X11 login screen
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3. 

Actual Results:

some chars are missing or not correct

Expected Results:

Correct arab, chinese, japan and korean chars are drawn

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-11-21 19:26:02 EST

This is a function of which fonts you have installed.
We don't want to force people to install CJK or Arabic fonts.

Maybe pango could provide some API to say "can we render this string" 
but failing that or requiring everyone to install all fonts there's not much to
do with this bug.

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