** Summary changed: - [nc] Some characters too wide with default fixed-with font + Missing characters in monospace fonts fall back to proportional fonts
** Description changed: - The character "▷" (Unicode code point U+25B7, "white right-pointing - triangle") takes up more space than other characters. It extends - outside of its bounding box such that it overlaps with the character - immediately to its right. + gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3, Ubuntu 11.10 + gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 15.04 - Please see the attached screen shot for an example of the triangle - overlapping with the character 'M'. + When a character is not present in whichever monospace font you are + using, Ubuntu chooses a proportional font to render it. - This triangle character is not the only one that is drawn too wide. - U+25B6 is (somewhat trivially) another example. An even better example - is the drachma sign, U+20AF, which overlaps the character that follows - entirely. + This is usually not desirable. In a terminal, for example, the + proportional character is often too wide and therefore overlapped by the + following character. - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 - Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17 - Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64 - NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia - ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 - Architecture: amd64 - Date: Wed Feb 15 10:05:54 2012 - ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal - InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) - SourcePackage: gnome-terminal - UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + For example: + - bug 819708 (heavy line-drawing characters not lined up in Ubuntu Mono) + - bug 1116428 ('DOTTED CIRCLE' and 'BLACK CIRCLE' substituted from a wider font) + - bug 1094434 ("font lacks that symbols and use the ones from the other font which have incorrect sizes") + - bug 736613 ("the ! is rendered on top of the C") + - this bug as originally reported (U+25B7 white right-pointing triangle and U+20AF drachma overlapping with following characters). + + This happens with multiple monospace fonts -- Droid Sans Mono, Terminus, + TlwgMono Medium, and Ubuntu Mono -- suggesting that it is a problem with + fontconfig, rather than with the individual fonts. ** Project changed: ubuntu-font-family => fontconfig (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: fontconfig (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed ** No longer affects: fonts-tlwg (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: ttf-droid (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu) ** No longer affects: xfonts-terminus (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-font-family-sources in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932958 Title: Missing characters in monospace fonts fall back to proportional fonts Status in fontconfig package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3, Ubuntu 11.10 gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 15.04 When a character is not present in whichever monospace font you are using, Ubuntu chooses a proportional font to render it. This is usually not desirable. In a terminal, for example, the proportional character is often too wide and therefore overlapped by the following character. For example: - bug 819708 (heavy line-drawing characters not lined up in Ubuntu Mono) - bug 1116428 ('DOTTED CIRCLE' and 'BLACK CIRCLE' substituted from a wider font) - bug 1094434 ("font lacks that symbols and use the ones from the other font which have incorrect sizes") - bug 736613 ("the ! is rendered on top of the C") - this bug as originally reported (U+25B7 white right-pointing triangle and U+20AF drachma overlapping with following characters). This happens with multiple monospace fonts -- Droid Sans Mono, Terminus, TlwgMono Medium, and Ubuntu Mono -- suggesting that it is a problem with fontconfig, rather than with the individual fonts. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/932958/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp