Public bug reported:
Actually, there are two separate issues, See attached screen shot.
Firstly, as I'm entering Japanese text (into Nautilus, or Firefox, or
wherever), when I type Japanese hiragana characters it seems to switch
to one font, then when I type Japanese kanji characters, it seems to
switch to another. From a brief inspection, it seems that all the
installed fonts either contain no Japanese characters, or contain both
hiragana and kanji characters. So, why is it switching between fonts
like that?
Secondly, the default font seems to vertically center the Japanese comma
and period characters. What's up with that? I'm not a Japanese expert,
but I think this is as abnormal in Japanese as centering a comma or
period in English text would be.
When combined, the above two issues are especially annoying. The comma
character moves up and down in the same sentence, depending on what
character was before it.
Actually, as I type this, I realize why a font would have a vertically-
centered comma and period like that -- this would be appropriate for
vertical text. So perhaps the question is, why is a vertical font being
selected or why does the font engine thing I'm typing vertically?
For reference, here is the text from the attached screen shot...
AAA、。あああ、。曲、。あ、。
(The comma and period are u3001 and 3002, the hiragana character is u3042, and
the kanji is u66f2)
Ubuntu 8.04 beta, no compiz, Japanese language installed and default
font size set to 12, but otherwise everything is pretty-much as one
would get from a fresh install. (The same issues are seen when font
size is 10, the default). I've only tried this under gnome.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Japanese font switching issue
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219931
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