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language-selector package

  1. Bug #759882
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 759882

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote :

@Nobuto

> Does this report handles the problem that when SHIFT_JIS encoded font-names are specified, evince(poppler) cannot show the characters?

No, its seems misunderstanding too. This bug covers below "troble":

- Workaround/mitigation/fixing for Evince's "square character bug" (yes, strictly speaking, its libpoppler's bug).
- That caused by fontconfig settings. Evince(libpoppler) could not handles properly "secondoly" fonts.
- It has same root problem of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36474 . But another approach(workarounding).

This "trouble" caused by these situations(In PDF property):

a) PDF designate "non-existent fonts" in your sytstem.
b) PDF designate "Shift_JIS(amd other encodings) encoded FontName". That makes corruption in FontName strings, that cause a) as a result(Broken FontName could not match system's font lists).

And, If you reproduce this "trouble", you could see these two behavior:

1) Evince could not show characters ("square character bug"), its evince/libpoppler bug.
2) Evince shows the FontName as "Times New Roman". This is evince's bug.

The key factor of that, these are brother, but not same bug.
- "Situation a" cause 1.
- "Situation b" cause 1 and 2.

So, I'll report 2) as a yet another bug.