Bug 6123

Summary:	URW fonts are not fully support utf-8 charset
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	qu du <linnets>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	luigiwalser, pterjan, stormi-mageia
Version:	2	Keywords:	Triaged, UPSTREAM
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	urw-fonts-2.4-2.mga2.noarch	CVE:
Status comment:

Description qu du 2012-05-28 01:34:34 CEST

Description of problem:

URW fonts are not contained some Vietnamese character (such as: áº¥, á»)

If I replaces the Mageia URW-fonts with Mandriva 2010.1 URW fonts, then everything is OK.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
urw-fonts-2.4-2.mga2.noarch


How reproducible:
Enter some Vietnamese character with selected URW font in text editor, or kfontview.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use kfontview to open font URW Palladio L Regular (/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/p052003l.pfb) 
2. Change sample text, to use characters : áº¥, á»

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-28 12:40:52 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2013-08-28 22:39:57 CEST

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.
As there is no maintainer for this package I added the committers in CC.

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => luigiwalser, pterjan, stormi

Comment 2 David Walser 2013-08-28 22:51:32 CEST

Do you have any more information?  The Mandriva 2010.1 URW fonts are actually badly broken, having reintroduced a bug that had been fixed years ago (font height issue caused by too-tall utf-8 glyphs).  It's fixed since Mageia 2, and as far as I know our version is still the latest upstream.

David Walser 2013-08-28 22:51:38 CEST

Keywords: Junior_job => (none)

Comment 3 qu du 2013-09-09 10:00:55 CEST

The default urw fonts installed in Mageia 3 have the same missing characters.
I don't know why newer version remove characters!??

Test with Fedora's package and it's the same with Mageia.

Comment 4 David Walser 2013-09-09 14:11:35 CEST

Here's the upstream changelog with the author's e-mail address:
http://svn.ghostscript.com/ghostscript/tags/urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44/ChangeLog

Keywords: (none) => UPSTREAM

Comment 5 qu du 2013-09-09 19:51:39 CEST

According to the changelog, Vietnamese glyphs were removed in 2007.
I found version 2.3 of urw-font (fedora) was the latest package (December/2005) that contains VN glyphs.

Comment 6 David Walser 2013-09-09 20:30:37 CEST

OK.  I'm not sure why they were removed.  If they ever issue another version, I'll certainly update it.  Otherwise, we're not going to take any action on this.  Thanks for the report though.

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