Created attachment 643379 [details] rendering-problem-in-amharic-in-anaconda.png Tested on Fedora-18-Beta-TC8-x86_64-netinst.iso See attached screenshot.
The box in the screenshot shows the codepoint U+0020 SPACE. Weird that the space is not rendered correctly.
Vratislav explained to me where the string comes from, the string can be checked like this: $ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 24 2012, 10:05:38) [GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import babel >>> babel.Locale.parse("am_ET.UTF-8").display_name u'\u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b (\u12a2\u1275\u12ee\u1335\u12eb)' >>> babel.Locale.parse("am_ET.UTF-8").display_name.encode('utf8') '\xe1\x8a\xa0\xe1\x88\x9b\xe1\x88\xad\xe1\x8a\x9b (\xe1\x8a\xa2\xe1\x89\xb5\xe1\x8b\xae\xe1\x8c\xb5\xe1\x8b\xab)' >>> print babel.Locale.parse("am_ET.UTF-8").display_name አማርኛ (ኢትዮጵያ) >>> Which looks OK.
So this does not look like an anaconda but actually. Seems more likely to be a font/rendering bug, i.e. something in Gtk/Pango.
pango-view on Fedora 17 displays the string correctly though using the font /usr/share/fonts/sil-abyssinica/AbyssinicaSIL-R.ttf
It seems working on Fedora-18-Beta-TC8-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso So likely missing a font in netinst perhaps. I see the following fonts available on Live: $ fc-list :lang=am /usr/share/fonts/sil-abyssinica/AbyssinicaSIL-R.ttf: Abyssinica SIL:style=Regular /usr/share/fonts/gnu-free/FreeSerif.ttf: FreeSerif:style=Regular,нормален,normaयNormálne,ปกติ,menengah,прямій,Navadno,vidējs,normalusis,عادی,vừa,Arrunta,सामान्ый
On Fedora-18-Beta-TC8-x86_64-netinst.iso $ fc-list :lang=am /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/GohaTibebZemen.ttf: Goha\-Tibeb Zemen:style=Regular Which is owned by xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic. and I can reproduce this with: $ pango-view --markup -t '<span font="Goha-Tibeb Zemen 10">አማርኛ (ኢትዮጵያ)</span>' There should be two issues here. 1) Amharic support in Goha-Tibeb Zemen is broken. 2) we should consider to use another fonts for installation.
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/GohaTibebZemen.ttf indeed lacks ASCII completely, it even lacks the space. It has *only* Amharic.
Yes this is an old font and I'm not even sure it would be licensing-clean if we audited it today We have many more modern Amharic fonts in the distro (senamirmir fonts, sil Abyssinica…)
(In reply to comment #8) > Yes this is an old font and I'm not even sure it would be licensing-clean if > we audited it today Then we should audit it. > > We have many more modern Amharic fonts in the distro (senamirmir fonts, sil > Abyssinica…) In that case we should include them by default instead of GohaTibebZemen.
nim-nim and others: So what's our consensus for alternative font of xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic? apparently the packages which explicitly set any alias name in fontconfig config file is only sil-abyssinica-fonts and is serif though.
abyssinica is the most recent and has been updated to latest unicode standards. Senamirmir fonts have more weights. I don't know if the coverage differences are significant to users. None of those is sans-serif as it seems sans-serif is not used much by Amharic users. My advice would be to ask locals for preferences if we have a l10n Amharic group. I'm pretty sure xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic is bad.
*** Bug 884407 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 713865 [details] rendering-problem-in-amharic-in-anaconda-f19-Alpha-TC1.png The problem is still unchanged in Fedora-19-Alpha-TC1.
The problem still exists in Fedora-19-Beta-TC3.
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
The problem still exists in Fedora-19-Beta-RC4.
The problem still exists in Fedora-19-TC1.
This isn't a pango bug at all, we just need to change the font for Amharic in the installation image. xorg-x11-fonts-ethiopic isn't suitable according to the above comments, we should change to sil-abyssinica-fonts at least - we can change it later if Amharic people in Fedora community isn't comfortable with it. that would be better than broken font anyway. reassigning to lorax.
Fixed in Fedora-19-TC5-x86_64-netinst.iso.
Created attachment 762337 [details] rendering-problem-in-amharic-in-anaconda-fixed-in-f19-TC5.png