Bug#366760: Symbol problems in yelp

[Scott Anderson]

--- Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:

> Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 11:02 -0800, Scott Anderson a écrit :
> > I've updated my locale to match Michael's.  But the problem remains.  Is this a font specific
> > problem?  I'm pretty confused because I have another machine at home running the same
> > configuration, but it does not have the bug.  Only this machine at work does.
> > 
> > Michael, what fonts are you using?  I'm using
> > 
> > Application font:  Bitstream Vera Sans Roman, size 8
> > Document font:     Bitstream Vera Sans Roman, size 10
> > Desktop font:      Bitstream Vera Sans Roman, size 8
> > Window Title font: Bitstream Vera Serif Bold, size 8
> > Fixed width font:  Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Roman, size 8
> 
> Things are more complicated than that. When a specific symbol is not
> available in a font, fontconfig looks for it in another font of the same
> family. For example, a Japanese character will be displayed when
> selecting Bitstream Vera, but the actual font used will be Kochi
> Mincho/Gothic.
> 
> What is happening here is that the document contains glyphs (U+2002 and
> U+2003) that are available in ttf-dejavu (which is installed by default
> on a desktop system) and not in ttf-bitstream-vera (just checked).
> 
> The solution is probably to  add a Recommends: ttf-bitstream-vera for
> yelp.

I installed ttf-dejavu and the boxes disappeared.  Looks like we can close this bug.

Josselin, did you mean add a Recommends: ttf-dejavu?

Scott


 
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