You have been subscribed to a public bug: I'm trying to typeset some texts in ancient Mongolian and Phags-pa, both of which have been included in Unicode. For Mongolian, I've installed the ttf-manchufont package. For Phags-pa, I've used the font available here: http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/12/phags-pa-shaping- behaviour.html
Both languages use the Unicode Variation Selectors. In a nutshell, the combination character + variation selector should change the representation of the character to a different variant. See the table of Standardised Unicode variants here: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.html The expected behavior does not work in any of the packages I've tried (gedit, gimp and OpenOffice). Instead, the variation selector remains as it's own character and the preceding character is unmodified (see attachment). This is NOT an issue with the fonts because: a. The fonts have the appropriate substitutions defined, as can be observed by editing the fonts in e.g. fontforge. b. The expected behavior happens in WIndows 7 using these fonts. This is an issue with whatever package handles Unicode glyph substitution. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Mar 16 10:30:20 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1) MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7576 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-27-generic root=UUID=136a2918-79f6-4777-a8b5-b9d86515a24b ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display dmi.bios.date: 12/17/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: V4.0 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: 790GX-G65 (MS-7576) dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV4.0:bd12/17/2009:svnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7576:pvr1.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rn790GX-G65(MS-7576):rvr1.0:cvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:ct3:cvr1.0: dmi.product.name: MS-7576 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory system: distro: Ubuntu codename: maverick architecture: x86_64 kernel: 2.6.35-27-generic ** Affects: libreoffice Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: fonts maverick typography unicode -- Unicode variation selectors not supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736153 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
