Incorrect unicode glyphs in mikachan fonts for U+005C, U+00A5, U+00A7, U+00AE, U+00DF

[Mechanical snail]

Binary package hint: ttf-mikachan

Version: ttf-mikachan 9.1-1 on ubuntu karmic.

Wrong glyphs in the 4 mikachan fonts: "mikachan", "mikachan-P", "mikachan-PB", "mikachan-PS", as displayed in gucharmap and OpenOffice Writer.

The incorrect glyphs are:
U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS: looks like a yen sign; should be a backslash
U+00A5 YEN SIGN: glyph is blank
U+00A7 SECTION SIGN: glyph is a cartoon drawing of a girl's face; should be a section sign
U+00AE REGISTERED SIGN: glyph is blank
U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S: glyph is blank

In addition, U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT looks funny.

Note that the related characters U+FF3C FULLWIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS and U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN are correct.

The backslash and yen errors probably resulted from a naive conversion from an older Japanese character set, which did not distinguish backslash and yen characters.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 20 21:14:20 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: ttf-mikachan 9.1-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: ttf-mikachan
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

[Hideki Yamane (henrich)]

Thank you for your report.
I've forwareded it to upstream BBS, http://www.bbsroom.com/cgi-local/bbs3/tinies.cgi?room=mika4321