Bug 11096

Summary:	Current English sans-serif font converting "fl" to strange glyph
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Frank Griffin <ftg>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	thunderbird	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	TB screenshot showing error Second example affecting "ff" and "fi"

Description Frank Griffin 2013-08-28 14:41:08 CEST

Something in the last few days of cauldron activity has resulted in TB displaying the combination "fl" as a strange single-character glyph that resembles a backwards epsilon.

My impression was that this affected other apps as well, but when I specifically searched for examples, I could only find them in TB.

I'll attach a screenshot.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Frank Griffin 2013-08-28 14:45:25 CEST

Created attachment 4292 [details]
TB screenshot showing error

About a third of the way down the message window, note the rendering of what is supposed to be "Fox footy floats flagship app on Redmond Cloud"

Comment 2 Frank Griffin 2013-08-28 14:51:07 CEST

Here is the HTML source for that area of text:

<div class=3D"LeadStory">
<p class=3D"Headline"><a href=3D"http://go.reg.cx/news/27Fy">Fox footy floa=
ts flagship app on Redmond cloud</a></p>
<p class=3D"Standfirst">'Viable model for premium content', apparently</p>
</div>

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2013-08-28 14:59:40 CEST

Created attachment 4293 [details]
Second example affecting "ff" and "fi"

Apparently the combinations "ff" and "fi" are also affected.  The HTML for the sequence shown in this screenshot is:

</div>
<ul>
<li>
<p class=3D"Headline"><a href=3D"http://go.reg.cx/news/27Fr">Cryptome suffe=
rs brief take-down over Japanese 'terror' files</a></p>
<p class=3D"Standfirst">Bitten by attack dog, just a flesh wound</p>
</li>
<li>

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-08-28 19:37:21 CEST

well to honest I don't know what to do with such bugs

Keywords: (none) => Triaged

Manuel Hiebel 2013-08-28 19:37:44 CEST

Keywords: Triaged => (none)

Comment 5 Frank Griffin 2013-08-28 22:00:49 CEST

I guess the first port of call would be anyone who changed/updated any fonts lately, like in the last week.  I know I didn't tell TB to switch fonts, so it should still be using whatever we ship it with.

Comment 6 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-17 18:19:32 CEST

Is this bug reproducible in Mageia 4 and 5?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 7 Frank Griffin 2015-05-20 13:57:54 CEST

I haven't noticed this in a quite a while, so it appears whatever broke was fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED