Technical: Restore version debug glyph in PUA
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Font Family |
Fix Released
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High
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Malcolm Wooden |
Bug Description
Currently the 0.69 can be identified in rendering screenshots as it is the only version without a version number glyph.
In order to tell 0.70 uniquely apart, in screenshots and regardless of metadata, this needs to be present.
It should be possible to build this using the superscript/
v 0
.70
it doesn't matter if these glyphs overlap each other---indeed this makes it easy to distinguish it as the version symbol and not something that a user can create (or fake) easily with text.
This should be (re-)generated by a script in a similar manner to the glyphs used for the CASE implementation (bug #676538) and once the codepoint entry and bounding-box are reinserted updating is trival.
Related branches
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → Shiraaz Gabru (shiraaz) |
milestone: | none → 0.70 |
tags: | added: uff-pua uff-regression |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
milestone: | 0.70 → later |
assignee: | Shiraaz Gabru (shiraaz) → nobody |
summary: |
- Restore debug glyphs (Weight and version) in PUA + Restore version debug glyph in PUA |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
importance: | Low → High |
assignee: | nobody → Malcolm Wooden (malcolm-daltonmaag) |
milestone: | later → 0.70 |
summary: |
- Restore version debug glyph in PUA + Technical: Restore version debug glyph in PUA |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
The test glyphs were a temporary measure, all the details required for displaying font weight and version are in the font name table. There are disadvantages of leaving the beta test/debug glyphs in the fonts. Unnecessary overhead, they need to be manually updated for each release.