Displays characters from different font when font doesn't contain it
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Gnome Specimen |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-specimen (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-specimen
As per upstream request, I am re-filing Debian bug #493088 here.
Package: gnome-specimen
Version: 0.4-3
Severity: normal
Hi!
I am in awe about this really helpful and nice tool. Though, there is
one drawback that I noticed (possibly because of my German locale):
gnome-specimen does display characters that aren't included in the font
with the default font it seems. That is, if a font doesn't contain
informations for e.g. German umlauts, gnome-specimen will still display
rendered umlauts - but they are coming from a totally different font.
I almost was about to file a bugreport against a font for b0rked
characters because of this until I looked more closer. It would be a
better idea to display the not found box [] or nothing at all instead of
the corresponding character from the default font, to make it clear that
the font doesn't contain support for that character.
Thanks,
Rhonda
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-specimen depends on:
ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-central 0.6.8 register and build utility for Pyt
ii python-glade2 2.12.1-6 GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii python-gnome2 2.22.0-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python-gtk2 2.12.1-6 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
gnome-specimen recommends no packages.
gnome-specimen suggests no packages.
Confirming.
This might be useful: http:// davyd.livejourn al.com/ 234143. html