Qt displays half width character as full width in some Japanese fonts

[Daisuke Kameda]

Binary package hint: libqtgui4

There is the problem that Qt displays half width character
(e.g. alphabet) as full width in some Japanese fonts.
This problem was reported in #QTBUG-1726
<http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-1726>.

This occurs in the following fonts.
- Monospace font
- Selif font
- IPA font (Ver.0301)
- NSimSun

In Cario and fontconfig etc., the FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH
is specified as flag of FT_Load_Glyph function to solve this problem.

According to the document of freetype,
this flag exists to support buggy CJK fonts.
http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_LOAD_XXX

This patch is already merged in Qt4.7 branch.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This should be fixed in maverick and beyond according to the upstream ticket. Please feel free to reopen if this is not the case.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Jonathan, what's the lucid status here?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

I've not done anything with it, and probably won't.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".