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

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

The bug has allegedly been fixed upstream: 
https://github.com/praat/praat/issues/348#issuecomment-303573859

Rafael

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org> [2017-05-05 14:16]:

> 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
>>
>>
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