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#293850
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regarding ttf-bitstream-vera: Missing U+2010 HYPHEN character - leads to ugly
boxes in UTF-8 man output
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: ttf-bitstream-vera
Version: 1.10-3
Severity: normal
The fonts in this package are missing the U+2010 HYPHEN character. This
is not normally visible as one mostly encounters the ASCII
minus-or-hyphen character, which looks identical. However, in a UTF-8
locale, man (for some reason) sometimes produces unicode hyphens. As a
result, using Bitstream Sans Mono Bold as a terminal font produces ugly
"unknown character" boxes in (some) man pages.
To replicate this problem, set your terminal font to "Bitstream Vera
Sans Mono Bold" (in Konsole, for definiteness), set your locale to a
UTF-8 locale (as below) and then run "man fc-cache". The hyphen in
"fc-cache" will become a U+2010, which will look like a box.
Alternatively, if python is installed, set up the terminal as above and run
$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#2, Jan 5 2005, 08:24:51)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print u"\u2010"
‐
>>>
The character above (in this message) is actually a U+2010, so you could
also try viewing this message in a Bitstream Vera Sans family font. Be
warned that mozilla-firefox helpfully borrows characters from other
fonts to cope.
To fix this, all that is needed is to add a single character to the
font; the character U+2010 simply needs to be made a duplicate of the
ASCII minus-or-hyphen. I have done this on my home copies and it
resolves the problem, but the license on this package seems to preclude
distributing the fixed version under the current name. So upstream
needs to fix this (which should be easy).
Thanks,
Andrew
-- Package-specific info:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==========================-==========================-====================================================================
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2
font engine, shared library files
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based
font drawing library for X
ii fontconfig 2.2.3-4 generic font
configuration library
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.050126
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages ttf-bitstream-vera depends on:
ii defoma 0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager --
automatic f
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.10-7+rm
The ttf-bitstream-vera package has been removed from Debian so we are closing
the bugs that were still opened against it.
For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/461308 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.
Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.
Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
Kind regards,
--
Marco Rodrigues
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