Bug#828056: mpv: problems with osd if costom fonts are installed

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi treaki,

Thanks for the bugreport!

Quoting treaki (2016-06-24 13:59:58)
> Dear Maintainer,

Please note that I am not the package maintainer, just following along 
and here have a few comments.

> after some days at just accepting this bad failaur i [...] i found 
> that i had installed properitoyr ms fonts to ~/.fonts.


> for now i dont need theese fonts but the problem should still be 
> fixed.

I agree that ideally Mpv (or libfreetype, probably) should gracefully 
handle fonts that it cannot render properly.


> the problem is present at the new mouse osd but also at the old one 
> (like if you press key i or change volume). somehow only the not 
> capital letter a is shown.

My guess is that the font is broken in some subtle way so that it 
renders fine in some applications (otherwise you would probably have 
noticed the issue earlier) but for some reason not here.


> reportbug saied the attachement of the compressed font tar.xz is to 
> big to send, please tell me if you still need it where to upload.

It is probably best to *not* distribute those fonts to the mailinglist, 
as you might then violate the licensing terms you were granted for use 
of those fonts.

If you don't mind, then email the fonts to me privately, and I will try 
examine if/how those fonts are technically broken (and will then delete 
the fonts again).


 - Jonas

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