[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#747062: fonts-maitreya uses strange character mapping under UTF-8

[Osamu Aoki]

Package: fonts-maitreya
Version: 7.0.3-1
Severity: wishlist

fonts-maitreya seems to use from UTF-8: 0x21 to UTF-8: 0x7D to its fonts
without regards to the Unicode code point assignment convention.  This
may be done due to the technical simplicity but they are using the wrong
code points.

At least some of these astrological symbol characters have proper
Unicode code points.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_symbols#Unicode_encodings

Also, there is the Private Use Areas in Unicode as the last resort.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas

Overloading ASCII character code points as current font file is wrong
approach.

Considering this is not as easy as other 3 bugs reported in public, this
bug fix may be done later than others.

#734711 maitreya: recommends nonexistent font-maitreya
#746983 fonts-maitreya: This should be arch=all
#742288 maitreya: vcs-browser field points to wrong url
 ... any other issues you are concerned now.

Osamu

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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