It's a recommended mode of behaviour according to the Apple TrueType Reference Manual:
http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6name.html I'm going to reject this bug and let you talk with GNOME to figure out a sensible way to handle this. ** Changed in: control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- gnome-font-viewer does not honour the '_Sample Text' attribute https://launchpad.net/bugs/57122 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs