[Bug 1275971] [NEW] Dejavu sans bold font broken on GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
Sergio Callegari
sergio.callegari at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 22:50:54 UTC 2014
Public bug reported:
Font dejavu sans bold, as distributed in fonts-dejavu-core.deb
incorrectly renders some chars and notably GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
(U+0394).
Character is misrendered in acroread, by ghostscript and when printed to
most postscript printers. Misrendering includes total or partial fill of
the inside of the delta symbol.
Issue is nasty, because on ubuntu the font configuration is such that
whenever one requires a greek letter on a sans font that does not
include the greek gliphs, dejavu sans is automatically substituted.
The saucy package is affected (2.33t+svn...)
The package that is currently in trusty is also affected (2.34)
Issue is known to the dejavu fonts developers and fixed in snapshot
140118
Please consider for a SRU, or at least update the trusty package (that
is installable in saucy).
** Affects: dejavu-fonts
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Affects: fonts-dejavu (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #74434
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74434
** Also affects: dejavu-fonts via
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74434
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Title:
Dejavu sans bold font broken on GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
Status in DejaVu Fonts:
Unknown
Status in “fonts-dejavu” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Font dejavu sans bold, as distributed in fonts-dejavu-core.deb
incorrectly renders some chars and notably GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA
(U+0394).
Character is misrendered in acroread, by ghostscript and when printed
to most postscript printers. Misrendering includes total or partial
fill of the inside of the delta symbol.
Issue is nasty, because on ubuntu the font configuration is such that
whenever one requires a greek letter on a sans font that does not
include the greek gliphs, dejavu sans is automatically substituted.
The saucy package is affected (2.33t+svn...)
The package that is currently in trusty is also affected (2.34)
Issue is known to the dejavu fonts developers and fixed in snapshot
140118
Please consider for a SRU, or at least update the trusty package (that
is installable in saucy).
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