the japanese kanas in ptt.cc was converted to Private Used Area in unicode

[LI Daobing]

Binary package hint: ttf-wqy-zenhei

the following character has a wrong display under "WenQuanYi Zen Hei" and "WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono"
"☆"

many other japanese characters also has this problem.

three screenshot in leafpad in attachment, the file name is the font name.

[Qianqian Fang (fangq)]

what you typed are not Japanese characters. Their encodings belongs to Private Used Area (PUA), and are arbitrarily defined for specific fonts. The corresponding unicode values are:
  "U+f73f U+f703 U+2606 U+f70f U+f715"

What you should be using are "らき☆すた", with corresponding unicode values
  "U+3089 U+304D U+2606 U+3059 U+305F"

these are the true "Japanese" kanas, Zen Hei and many other CJK fonts can display them very well.

Perhaps Arne should consider removing these PUA glyphs from Uming. Using them causing more confusions. I can find a bunch of reports on this:

http://wenq.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=744&p=3985
http://wenq.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=874

Another frequently encountered problem is U+E5D9 (mapped to U+23EBF), the string "" are often seen at the beginning of a paragraph (may be a result of using MS Word) and causing confusions, for example:

http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=221913&p=1423546

I understand that Uming defines these code points based on HKSCS-2004 Annex (http://www.ogcio.gov.hk/ccli/unicode/hkscs/download/2003cmp.txt), however since uming has far less code points than the 65535 limit, it is entirely possible to restore these code points to their official unicode encoding.

Arne, do you want to comment on this?

[LI Daobing (lidaobing)]

Please don't remove these symbols from ttf-arphic-uming until (at least one) BBS client can correct convert these character in ptt.cc to the correct unicode.

[Pierre Slamich (pierre-slamich)]

Subscribing Ubuntu Japanese Translators.

[Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito)]

@pierre-slamich,

It seems font/cmap side problem, this is *not* translation related things. So, I have question. Japanese translators could resolve this issue?

I would be very grateful if you could correct my understanding.
 - added as subscriber : reasonable.
 - changed assignee: ..why?

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained