Bolding unicode fonts works only sporadically
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Chromium Browser |
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Unknown
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
While chasing down a bug today (https:/
Attached you'll see a screenshot of Ubuntu's Chromium vs Ubuntu's Firefox. The bolded letters in the Tamil language font are not displayed correctly. I downloaded Google's .deb of Chrome to compare and it had the same problem. (You'll see from the linked bug that Brion diagnosed this problem first.)
Since Fedora 16 came out recently, I decided to give it a try. The Google-provided RPMs for Chrome were able to display the bolded fonts properly there.
Ubuntu should probably do whatever Fedora is doing to bold those fonts.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: chromium-browser 14.0.835.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Thu Nov 10 22:02:33 2011
Desktop-Session:
DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome-shell
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/
XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/
Env:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-23 (19 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
Upstream bug - http:// code.google. com/p/chromium/ issues/ detail? id=32109- Font selected for complex scripts loses selected font attributes, sometimes making text (Italic, bold) render as empty boxes