[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#495346: Some typographic symbols are missing

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

Package: ttf-vlgothic
Version: 20080624-1
Severity: normal


This way you can see, how poorly this font performs, when it is used
for reading some typographical symbols of japanese language:

You must have some locale that uses UTF-8 and everything else must be
UTF-8-clean. Give this command:

uxterm -fa 'VL Gothic' -fs 12 &

Make that terminal-emulator fullscreen. Then give this command in that
(u)xterm:

w3m 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typographic_symbols'

When you scroll down, you see some boxes instead of real symbols. Here
is a list of them:

〱 U+3031 VERTICAL KANA REPEAT MARK
〲 U+3032 VERTICAL KANA REPEAT WITH VOICED SOUND MARK
〖 U+3016 LEFT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET
〗 U+3017 RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET
〘 U+3018 LEFT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET
〙 U+3019 RIGHT WHITE TORTOISE SHELL BRACKET
〚 U+301A LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
〛 U+301B RIGHT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
〽 U+303D PART ALTERNATION MARK
♫ U+266B BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES
♬ U+266C BEAMED SIXTEENTH NOTES
♩ U+2669 QUARTER NOTE
〶 U+3036 CIRCLED POSTAL MARK
〠 U+3020 POSTAL MARK FACE
〄 U+3004 JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL
Ⓧ U+24CD CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
Ⓨ U+24CE CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
◦ U+25E6 WHITE BULLET



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1100, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ttf-vlgothic depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f

ttf-vlgothic recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ttf-vlgothic suggests:
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-1    generic font configuration library
ii  x-ttcidfont-conf              29         TrueType and CID fonts configurati
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.3+15   the X.Org X server

-- no debconf information

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