U+2007 FIGURE SPACE and U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE too wide
Bug #1543989 reported by
Philipp Wendler
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Unicode contains the two whitespace characters U+2007 FIGURE SPACE and U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE that should be equal in width to a digit and a punctuation symbol, respectively.
In the Ubuntu Font, these are slightly too wide, such that tables using them for alignment will be misaligned.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04, but the problem persists after installing ttf-ubuntu-
I can reproduce the problem with LibreOffice, Firefox, and Chromium (test cases attached).
The test cases also use Droid Sans to show the expected behavior.
affects: | ubuntu-font-family → fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
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The Unicode chart https:/ /www.unicode. org/charts/ PDF/U2000. pdf has the following notes:
2007 FIGURE SPACE
• space equal to tabular width of a font
• this is equivalent to the digit width of fonts with fixed-width digits
≈ <noBreak> 0020
2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE
• space equal to narrow punctuation of a font
≈ 0020 space