missing japanese kanji in font 'Monospace'

[Kevin Connor Arpe]

Hi,

This bug is related to #149348.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/149348

I already reported to KDE/KWrite, but was told to report here instead.
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172638

Here is my issue:

Description:
Opened: 2008-10-12 10:09 Last Changed: 2008-10-13 21:08:56
Version: 4.5.9 (using 3.5.9, Kubuntu (hardy) 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7.1)
Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.24-19-generic

Hi, When I use the font 'Monospace', the kanji (絵) is missing. It draws as a square with black border and transparent fill -- a generic missing character image.

See the Wiktionary page here: http://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B5%B5

I noticed I can see it inside my Firefox browser, but the app title (drawn by KDE libs) draws the kanji as a square when you open the Wiki page above.

Try to copy and paste the kanji into KWrite to replicate.

I cannot find another fixed width font that has this kanji. I only know courier, and it doesn't work there either.

This bug report may appear misdirected, but I don't know how to file a bug for a font missing a character. Apologies in advance!

Otherwise, KWrite and KDE is dandy. Thanks for your hard work. I appreciate it!

Kind regards,
Kevin Connor Arpe

Comment #1 Matthew Woehlke 2008-10-13 21:08:56
As you note, this is most likely not a kwrite bug, nor even a KDE bug, and further may be no bug at all. I suggest taking this to your distribution's support forums; most likely, you are simply missing a font that provides kanji, or possibly fontconfig is misconfigured. Your distro will be better able to guide you to ascertaining if there is truly a bug. Worth mentioning is that I am able to see/use 絵 (and indeed, many other kanji) in kwrite without trouble.

[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Kevin Connor Arpe (kevinarpe)]

Hi. This is still an issue in KDE 3.5.10. I keep my Kubuntu up to date via
the updater tool.

Can anyone else replicate this issue on their Ubuntu or KDE install?

Thanks,
Kevin

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Dan Trevino <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> missing japanese kanji in font 'Monospace'
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285334
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> This bug is related to #149348.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/149348
>
> I already reported to KDE/KWrite, but was told to report here instead.
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172638
>
> Here is my issue:
>
> Description:
> Opened: 2008-10-12 10:09 Last Changed: 2008-10-13 21:08:56
> Version: 4.5.9 (using 3.5.9, Kubuntu (hardy) 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu7.1)
> Compiler: Target: i486-linux-gnu
> OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.24-19-generic
>
> Hi, When I use the font 'Monospace', the kanji (絵) is missing. It draws as
> a square with black border and transparent fill -- a generic missing
> character image.
>
> See the Wiktionary page here: http://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%B5%B5
>
> I noticed I can see it inside my Firefox browser, but the app title (drawn
> by KDE libs) draws the kanji as a square when you open the Wiki page above.
>
> Try to copy and paste the kanji into KWrite to replicate.
>
> I cannot find another fixed width font that has this kanji. I only know
> courier, and it doesn't work there either.
>
> This bug report may appear misdirected, but I don't know how to file a bug
> for a font missing a character. Apologies in advance!
>
> Otherwise, KWrite and KDE is dandy. Thanks for your hard work. I appreciate
> it!
>
> Kind regards,
> Kevin Connor Arpe
>
> Comment #1 Matthew Woehlke 2008-10-13 21:08:56
> As you note, this is most likely not a kwrite bug, nor even a KDE bug, and
> further may be no bug at all. I suggest taking this to your distribution's
> support forums; most likely, you are simply missing a font that provides
> kanji, or possibly fontconfig is misconfigured. Your distro will be better
> able to guide you to ascertaining if there is truly a bug. Worth mentioning
> is that I am able to see/use 絵 (and indeed, many other kanji) in kwrite
> without trouble.
>

[mecha godzilla (extendextra)]

oh yeah, I can replicate this all day. happens with 'manzoku' 満足 for example.
KDE3.5.10 Kubuntu Hardy

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Can someone tel if this still an issue ?
Thanks
Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!