Unicode Control Pictures swapped

[Simon Lüke]

I'm running Linux Mint 13 Maya MATE and Cinnamon 64 bit
and found that the graphical representations for the following both pictures have been swapped:

2404 ␄ SYMBOL FOR END OF TRANSMISSION
2405 ␅ SYMBOL FOR ENQUIRY

If that's the case for you also you will see the “diagonal lettering glyphs” ENQ for END OF TRANSMISSION and EOT vice versa. If the bug does not appear it's already fixed.

The corresponding Debian Bug#632746 has been fixed by May 21 2012 and can be found here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632746

As further reference have a look at the Unicode standard:
www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2400.pdf

I found this also on an up-to-date Ubuntu 12.04.1 installation, maybe the bug has to be moved there, if so let me know and I'll take care of posting it there.

Kind regards,
Simon

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in ttf-freefont.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

[Steve White (stevan-white)]

Hi Simon,

This bug was fixed in the last release of GNU FreeFont, of May 03, 2012.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/

Cheers!

[Simon Lüke (semaphor)]

Hi,

it's fixed, now running Ubuntu 12.10. So upstream has worked, thanks to all the people taking care of GNU/freefont (and of course the ones working on the Ubuntu releases)! :-)

On another machine running 12.04.2 the symbols are still swapped. As I don't think this will be fixed for previous releases, even LTS ones, I close this bug.

Have a nice weekend!