Japanese font switching issue
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Actually, there are two separate issues, See attached screen shot.
Firstly, as I'm entering Japanese text (into Nautilus, or Firefox, or wherever), when I type Japanese hiragana characters it seems to switch to one font, then when I type Japanese kanji characters, it seems to switch to another. From a brief inspection, it seems that all the installed fonts either contain no Japanese characters, or contain both hiragana and kanji characters. So, why is it switching between fonts like that?
Secondly, the default font seems to vertically center the Japanese comma and period characters. What's up with that? I'm not a Japanese expert, but I think this is as abnormal in Japanese as centering a comma or period in English text would be.
When combined, the above two issues are especially annoying. The comma character moves up and down in the same sentence, depending on what character was before it.
Actually, as I type this, I realize why a font would have a vertically-centered comma and period like that -- this would be appropriate for vertical text. So perhaps the question is, why is a vertical font being selected or why does the font engine thing I'm typing vertically?
For reference, here is the text from the attached screen shot...
AAA、。あああ、。曲、。あ、。
(The comma and period are u3001 and 3002, the hiragana character is u3042, and the kanji is u66f2)
Ubuntu 8.04 beta, no compiz, Japanese language installed and default font size set to 12, but otherwise everything is pretty-much as one would get from a fresh install. (The same issues are seen when font size is 10, the default). I've only tried this under gnome.
What version of ubuntu are you using? My feeling tells me this is a configuration issue. FWIW, I don't see the vertically- centering problem here. Can you create a new user and log in as this user to see if the problem remains the same?