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

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: tags -1 + upstream
Control: found -1 6.0.28-1
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/praat/praat/issues/348

Thanks for your bug report.  Te problem also affects the latest version 
of the package (6.0.28-1, now in experimental).  I forwarded the bug 
report to the upstream authors.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

* Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko at gmail.com> [2017-04-02 17:36]:

> 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.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>