Consistency: Some characters with Vietnamese accents are of smaller size than characters without accents

[Vu Do Quynh]

Rendered in 24pt Regular

Sample Glyphs:

ế

Description:

Some Vietnamese characters with complex accents are shown smaller than other characters which makes the letter display somehow "ugly".

Examples are ế ấ ẩ ử

UA String:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100628 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.6

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Please could you attach a screenshot showing exactly what you are seeing.

[Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh)]

Here is the screenshot of the typing area (I typed directly in the field). I tried to attach it with the report yesterdays but it didn't worked.?field.comment=Here is the screenshot of the typing area (I typed directly in the field). I tried to attach it with the report yesterdays but it didn't worked.

[Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh)]

Sorry, I missed the good file to be attached.

Here is the screenshot I made when testing the Ubuntu font in Vietnamese.

[Vincent Connare (vince-daltonmaag)]

The Ubuntu Sans character set does not include Vietnamese.

What you are seeing are substitute glyphs.

regards,

Vincent Connare
Dalton Maag Ltd.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

We would like to expand the character set coverage of the Ubuntu font to
include Vietnamese (and many other languages and scripts) but the
initial scope is defined already. Our plan for additional scripts is
sketchy, but roughly equates to finding a passionate young professional
fontographer and arranging an internship for them to attempt to handle
their language / script. But that is not something we can focus on right
now, so I'm setting the importance to low.

 importance low

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

Let the community do it. (cf. DejaVu and Latin Modern projects)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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