Package: gucharmap Version: 1:2.22.3-2 Severity: normal
Hello I was seeing characters rendered so badly I was wondering if I have a broken font or the application rendering the fonts is broken. At first sight these characters would be from the Han range so I tried looking at that range in gucharmap. At first glance I can see that I do have a font with decent glyphs in that range because every font has them in gucharmap .. but they are the same for almost all fonts. For example, the Sazanami fonts certainly should have some glyphs in Han range but when I select Sazanami Gothic I get same Sung/Mincho glyphs (not Gothic) as I do for fonts that are meant for Latin and probably do not have any Han ideographs at all. This applies pretty much for any font that sounds like it could be a CJK font. This is certainly a problem, the Han range is large and few fonts cover it completely but it seems that gucharmap refuses to show Han glyphs from fonts that do not cover the full range. I guess this is not limited to Han range. Latin and Cyrillic ranges also contain characters for multiple languages and if the font is developed for a particular language it may miss a few glyphs in some range. In Han this is most visible because it contains characters for both Japanese and Chinese (and both traditional and simplified Chinese) and some shared characters that are styled differently for each language so authors of fonts for one language often do not bother to include (hundreds of) glyphs used only in the other because the shared glyphs would look wrong with the other language and nobody in their right mind would suggest to use the font for both languages. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (290, 'stable-i386'), (280, 'testing-i386'), (270, 'unstable-i386'), (1, 'experimental-i386'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gucharmap depends on: ii gconf2 2.26.2-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.12-1~lenny1 The programs for the GTK+ graphica ii libgucharmap6 1:2.22.3-2 Unicode browser widget library (sh ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio Versions of packages gucharmap recommends: pn yelp <none> (no description available) gucharmap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org