[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#709805: Bug#709805: task-chinese-t: missing glyphs in font set(s)

[john knightley]

Dear Toni and others,

there are 75 thousand Chinese characters in Unicode, hence one ttf file
which has a limit of 256x256 glyphs can not contain all Chinese characters,
at least two ttf font files are required. Some packages contain 2 ttf files
often labelled A and B one from Chinese characters in the BMP (Basic
Multilingual Plane) and another for those in SIP (Supplementary Ideographic
Plane) . The example above is from SIP.


Regards
John


On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net> wrote:

> Package: fonts-moe-standard-kai
> Version: 20120530-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> this bug report may be relevant to antother font packages, but I don't
> know which one. Please reassign as you deem appropriate.
>
> In the Chinese font packages, some glyphs seem to be missing. You can
> see the problem on this web page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuyin
>
> For me, these characters don't display:
>
> 1. In the table "Rhymes & Medials", there is this text:
>
>    "From the obsolete character 𠀀 hē, ..."
>
>    You can see that the glyph for the character after "character" is
>    missing.
>
>    Three rows down, the same problem occurs in this text:
>
>    "From 𠀅 hài, bronze form of 亥"
>
> 2. Further down, just above the "See also" section, there is a table
> titled "Bopomofo Extended", where the last three glyphs are missing.
>
>
> I have these fonts installed:
>
> fonts-arphic-bkai00mp
> fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
> fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp
> fonts-arphic-gkai00mp
> fonts-arphic-ukai
> fonts-arphic-uming
> fonts-cwtex-docs
> fonts-cwtex-fs
> fonts-cwtex-heib
> fonts-cwtex-kai
> fonts-cwtex-ming
> fonts-cwtex-yen
> fonts-droid
> fonts-sil-nuosusil
> emacs-intl-fonts
> xfonts-intl-chinese
> xfonts-intl-chinese-big
> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp
> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp
> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp
> latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp
> texlive-metapost
> ttf-wqy-microhei
> ttf-wqy-zenhei
> xfonts-wqy
> fonts-moe-standard-kai
> fonts-moe-standard-song
> fonts-cns11643-kai
> fonts-cns11643-sung
> hbf-cns40-5
> hbf-cns40-4
> hbf-cns40-7
> hbf-cns40-6
> hbf-cns40-1
> hbf-cns40-3
> hbf-cns40-2
>
>
> Kind regards,
> --Toni++
>
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1,
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages task-chinese-t depends on:
> ii  tasksel  3.14+nmu2
>
> Versions of packages task-chinese-t recommends:
> ii  zhcon  1:0.2.6-10
>
> task-chinese-t suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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