[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 673997] Re: Mono renders non-latin characters as squares. Fonts substitution error.

[Frederic the wise]

this still effects me with banshee in Ubuntu. 11.04. Will this ever
work?

** Also affects: banshee
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Mono renders non-latin characters as squares. Fonts substitution
  error.

Status in Banshee Music Player:
  New
Status in The Mono .NET development environment:
  New
Status in “mono” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mono

  When an application is being run we expect to be able to see the non-latin characters like CJK ones.
  What happens is they're being shown as empty boxes|squares.

  My Ubuntu version is Maverick and i'm using the default mono and winforms packages:
  - libmono2.0-cil 2.6.7-3ubuntu1
  - libmono-winforms2.0-cil 2.6.7-3ubuntu1

  Afaik the problem is related to WinForms or to Ubuntu itself.
  Someone addressed this as an issue in thaifonts-scalable package. But as long as i'm not using that package and that issue is fixed for maverick, this is not the same bug. File /etc/fonts/conf.avail/89-ttf-thai-tlwg-synthetic.conf is not even present.

  How to reproduce the issue. Lanch a mono application, like KeePass2
  and type in the search box a CJK text or paste one like 我 (for
  chinese) or 私、わたし (for japanese). They're instantly shown as empty
  boxes.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: mono-runtime 2.6.7-3ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Nov 11 12:35:15 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/mono
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_US.utf8
  SourcePackage: mono

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