Call for friendly-recovery testing

[Ask Hjorth Larsen]

Hi Nobuto

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Nobuto MURATA <nobuto at nobuto-murata.org> wrote:
> Hi Ask,
>
> (2011年02月20日 22:47), Ask Hjorth Larsen wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklarsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> locale: da_DK.utf8
>>> affected: NO
>>> percentage: 100%
>>>
>>> (Includes non-latin characters)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Ask
>>>
>>
>> I found that the lower/uppercase letters æ, Æ, å and Å are correct,
>> but the last of the Danish non-latin characters, ø, looks somewhat
>> wrong when using a non-X terminal, because it is raised above the
>> baseline of the other characters.  Also the uppercase Ø is replaced by
>> something which doesn't resemble it very well.  I notice that in
>> general, very few non-latin characters are displayed correctly in the
>> non-X-terminal, but this does not have to do with friendly-recovery
>> specifically.  Does anyone notice anything similar? (We should
>> probably move this to a new thread)
>
> The font in console seems to cover Latin-1(ISO8859-1) only by default.
> Your issue might be related to this case[1].
>
> BTW, in your locale some characters have different glyphs, but no
> unreadable characters like squares. Is my recognithon correct?

Correct.  The different glyphs are very ugly (particularly the
uppercase one) but not unreadable.

>
> Then your locale is not enough to disable translations, right? In other
> words, keeping translated is fine?

Indeed, they should be kept.

>
> [1]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1#Languages_commonly_supported_but_with_incomplete_coverage
>
> --
> Nobuto MURATA / 村田信人

This is not the "incomplete coverage" issue, because it doesn't relate
to ǿ (i.e. ø with an apostrophe, which is used very rarely, and even
then only optionally).  It is related to ø and Ø without apostrophe.
The ø is replaced by an ø which is placed a few pixels above the
baseline of the other letters, while the Ø is replaced by some kind of
O-like character.  Ø is unicode 00D8 if this can help to reproduce the
problem.

Regards
Ask