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  1. Bug #31910
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 31910

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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote :

I am raising the severity to Major, priority to High, as this affects greatly the support for the Greek language (and possibly other languages).

Specifically, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331833

DejaVu Sans 2.1 (currently included in Dapper) can cause GNOME 2.14 applications to crash/hang when displaying specific characters. DejaVu Sans is the default desktop font for Greek and several other languages, therefore, it is likely to occur often.

It appears that the source of the bug has been in both DejaVu Sans 2.1 and GNOME libraries (probably in cairo/pango/fontconfig).

To solve the problem, we have verified that DejaVu 2.3 fixes this problem.

In addition, DejaVu Mono 2.1 does not have full coverage of Modern Greek, resulting in erroneous display (see bug 31890).

Therefore, could you please update the DejaVu package to include DejaVu 2.3?