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with "tibetan machine uni" font
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uni" font
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n
*** Please type your report below this line ***
When using the "Tibetan Machine Uni" font (which is packaged with
Debian and intended as the default font for Tibetan script), Iceweasel
is displaying every combining character separately as a dotted circle
with the combining character attached to it, rather than correctly
attached to the previous character. See screenshot:
http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/images/iceweasel_tmuni_bug.png
And what it should look like (using a different font):
http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/images/iceweasel_jomo_ok.png
Pango is enabled; it is required for display of Tibetan text. This
does not seem to be a bug in Pango, however, since both GTK widgets
and GIMP successfully render Tibetan text using Pango. On the other
hand, it very likely could be a misuse of Pango, since Abiword
exhibits incorrect display (albeit different from the Iceweasel issue;
Abiword seems to ignore the OpenType tables completely) with this font
as well, while working fine with other fonts.
As a workaround, users can remove the ttf-tmuni package and install
the ttf-dzongkha package instead, which provides a different font for
Tibetan script. However, users of these languages will often want to
have all Tibetan fonts installed for word processing use, etc., which
will cause any website explicitly requesting the "Tibetan Machine Uni"
font to become completely illegible.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-rc5-nkl1
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 iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.23.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.6.7-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-0d 3.11.7-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.3-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
iceweasel recommends no packages.
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Version: 3.0-1
* Rich Felker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:22:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > * Rich Felker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Package: iceweasel
> > > Version: 2.0.0.6-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: l10n
> > >
> > > *** Please type your report below this line ***
> > >
> > > When using the "Tibetan Machine Uni" font (which is packaged with
> > > Debian and intended as the default font for Tibetan script), Iceweasel
> > > is displaying every combining character separately as a dotted circle
> > > with the combining character attached to it, rather than correctly
> > > attached to the previous character. See screenshot:
> > >
> > > http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/images/iceweasel_tmuni_bug.png
> > >
> > > And what it should look like (using a different font):
> > >
> > > http://www.aerifal.cx/~dalias/images/iceweasel_jomo_ok.png
> > >
> > > Pango is enabled; it is required for display of Tibetan text. This
> > > does not seem to be a bug in Pango, however, since both GTK widgets
> > > and GIMP successfully render Tibetan text using Pango. On the other
> > > hand, it very likely could be a misuse of Pango, since Abiword
> > > exhibits incorrect display (albeit different from the Iceweasel issue;
> > > Abiword seems to ignore the OpenType tables completely) with this font
> > > as well, while working fine with other fonts.
> > >
> > > As a workaround, users can remove the ttf-tmuni package and install
> > > the ttf-dzongkha package instead, which provides a different font for
> > > Tibetan script. However, users of these languages will often want to
> > > have all Tibetan fonts installed for word processing use, etc., which
> > > will cause any website explicitly requesting the "Tibetan Machine Uni"
> > > font to become completely illegible.
> >
> > Did Iceweasel 3.0 fix the problem?
>
> Yes; I simply had not noticed since I had upgraded to a newer version
> of the Tibetan Machine Unicode font which avoids the problem. (The
> newer version is designed to support Windows 2k/XP machines without
> up-to-date Uniscribe by using simpler OpenType features. ttf-tmuni
> package should be updated to use this newer version too, but that's a
> separate issue report I suppose..)
>
> Thanks for checking back in. You can close this bug.
Thanks, closing.
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