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oxygen-fonts package

Oxygen does not support Cyrillic characters

Bug #1454672 reported by Gannet
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
oxygen-fonts (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

After installing Kubuntu Vivid I found very conspicuous inconsistency between latin and cyrillic font sizes wherever Oxygen Sans used in a system. This font chosen as default so it is very conspicuous. The cyrillic looks bigger than latin.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: ttf-oxygen-font-family 4:5.3.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu15.04~ppa1
Uname: Linux 4.1.0-040100rc3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed May 13 14:39:55 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-08 (339 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
SourcePackage: oxygen-fonts
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :
tags: added: font oxygen sans
removed: freeze
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → oxygen-fonts (Ubuntu)
Gannet (ken20001)
summary: - Inconsistent Oxygen Sans font sizes fo latin and cyrillic
+ Inconsistent Oxygen Sans font sizes for latin and cyrillic
description: updated
Gannet (ken20001)
description: updated
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Gannet (ken20001) wrote : Re: Inconsistent Oxygen Sans font sizes for latin and cyrillic

The same on bugs.kde.org: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344989

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Masurao (masurao) wrote :

Confirmed. I see same behaviour after upgrading from Kubuntu 14.10 to 15.04.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in oxygen-fonts (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Vladislav (contego) wrote :

This bug causes a bit of inconvenience, for example, because of it bottom parts of letters g, p, y etc. are invisible in language-mixed documents in Kate, so they are hard to read.

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Gannet (ken20001) wrote :

Vladislav, please, vote also on bugs.kde.org for this bug. Thanks.

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in oxygen-fonts (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Hrafnsmerki (goodwin93sad) wrote :

Yes, this bug affect me also. It need to be fixed, cause otherwise the system font look`s ugly.

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)
Changed in oxygen-fonts (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Wishlist
summary: - Inconsistent Oxygen Sans font sizes for latin and cyrillic
+ Oxygen does not support Cyrillic characters
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