Two mixed fonts when rendering Chinese in KDE/QT apps with Droid Sans fonts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
fonts-android (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
[Info for the Trusty SRU request]
Please see the description at bug #1351092.
[Original description]
Bug:
In all desktop applications, two different fonts are mixed to display Chinese text. I attached a screenshot of a paragraph of Chinese text in Kmail - some characters are displayed using a "italic" font, others in a "normal" font. The same problem exists in other applications, for example Dolphin or even Konsole. In Xterm, only the "normal" characters are displayed, where Dolphin displays italic characters Xterm leaves a white space. Websites are displayed fine, if I open the same mail in the web interface only one font is used.
Background
I' am using Kubuntu 14.04 with the language set to German in KDE settings.
The output of "locale" looks a bit messed up, I don't know why, as in the KDE settings all formats are consistently set to German standard.
"locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE=
LC_NUMERIC=
LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=
LC_MONETARY=
LC_MESSAGES=
LC_PAPER=
LC_NAME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATI
LC_ALL=
"
fc-match:
»DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"«
This is my first bug filed at launchpad. I filed it for language-selector as other related bugs I found were filed for the same package. If it isn't language-selector, perhaps you can point me to the right package?
affects: | fonts-droid (Ubuntu) → fonts-android (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: trusty |
Changed in fonts-android (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Incomplete → Triaged |
Changed in fonts-android (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in fonts-android (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
Changed in fonts-android (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
Changed in fonts-android (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Thanks for your report. I'm not sure about the affected packages, so let's wait with changing that.
The first thing I would like you to do to sort things out is to get a pure German locale. I'm not a Kubuntu user, and can't tell how you would do it via the GUI, but probably you can fix it by editing the /etc/default/locale file manually. Can you please edit that file so it only contains the line
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
Then relogin and run the locale command. If the Chinese entries are now gone, please let us know if it made a difference as regards the mixed fonts.