[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#859343: praat: Chinese characters not displaying in text annotations

[Leonardo Boiko]

Package: praat
Version: 5.4.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

I'm running Praat under an UTF-8 locale and have all the necessary fonts
installed.  I can see Chinese characters in Praat's text input box
(white on top of the screenshot), but not on the annotation area (yellow
on bottom):

https://i.stack.imgur.com/0x8RR.png

This issue was originally reported by a Ubuntu 16.04 user with praat
6.0.04 [1], who sees the same behavior:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/110904311/Praat.png

The manual page says that Chinese characters should be supported in text
annotations.  There seems to be no option to change the display font of
this area.

References:
[1] http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/20119/praat-shows-chinese-characters-as-blocks/21523#21523


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to ja_JP.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages praat depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                2.19-18+deb8u7
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.36.8-3
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-10
ii  oss-compat           6
ii  python               2.7.9-1

Versions of packages praat recommends:
ii  xfonts-100dpi  1:1.0.3
ii  xfonts-75dpi   1:1.0.3

praat suggests no packages.

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