Summary: | Invalid cyrillic and hebrew fonts in GNOME applications | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Andrew Skiba <skibochka> |
Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
Status: | RESOLVED CANTFIX | ||
Severity: | trivial | CC: | ska-fan |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 1.4_rc4 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Andrew Skiba
2003-06-02 04:17:43 UTC
can you give us more information on what version you are using for each piece of software you are mentioning? ska-fan, you should know about some of these issues, so how does this cyrillic stuff work with GNOME? maybe the font is missing from fontconfig or something? reporter did an emerge fontconfig and the initial problem dissapeared, suggesting he used an old fontconfig with old default setup. These sort of things are very dependant on fontpacks that are used. Pango uses fallback algorithms that pick the next best font if the font of first choice doesn't contain certain chars. If some russian font has crappy latin (hmm you know, english) glyphs it will use those. This is all quite hard to get right, especially in one setup or probably impossible even. In the future we should maybe have locale specific fontconfig setups or something. Anyway back to the report, fontconfig is installed by default on any recent setup with gnome (and even just xfree), so i don't really see what your problem is besides you don't like the defaults much. reporter you should probably install some additional fonts for non-latin stuff. This is not a gnome bug btw, it's a fonts setup problem (do not assign directly next time please). not much we can do about localized font setups at this time. re-close |