[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#495343: Some katakanas are missing

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

Package: ttf-vlgothic
Version: 20080624-1
Severity: normal


This way you can see, how poorly this font performs, when it is used
for reading circled and Ainu Katakanas:

You must have some locale that uses UTF-8 and everything else must be
UTF-8-clean. Give this command:

uxterm -fa 'VL Gothic' -fs 12 &

Then give this command in that (u)xterm:

w3m 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana'

Scroll down to section telling about circled katakanas and Ainu
extension of katakanas. You see nothing but boxes there:

      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F
32D   ㋐ ㋑ ㋒ ㋓ ㋔ ㋕ ㋖ ㋗ ㋘ ㋙ ㋚ ㋛ ㋜ ㋝ ㋞ ㋟
32E   ㋠ ㋡ ㋢ ㋣ ㋤ ㋥ ㋦ ㋧ ㋨ ㋩ ㋪ ㋫ ㋬ ㋭ ㋮ ㋯
32F   ㋰ ㋱ ㋲ ㋳ ㋴ ㋵ ㋶ ㋷ ㋸ ㋹ ㋺ ㋻ ㋼ ㋽ ㋾

ㇰㇱㇲㇳㇴㇵㇶㇷㇸㇹㇺㇻㇼㇽㇾㇿ


In addition this is missing:

ヿ U+30FF KATAKANA DIGRAPH KOTO


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1100, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ttf-vlgothic depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

ttf-vlgothic recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ttf-vlgothic suggests:
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-1    generic font configuration library
ii  x-ttcidfont-conf              29         TrueType and CID fonts configurati
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.3+15   the X.Org X server

-- no debconf information

-- 
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