[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1009217: fonts-droid-fallback: English text broken when running programs via wine that use both Japanese and Latin characters

[Konomi Kitten]

Package: fonts-droid-fallback
Version: 1:6.0.1r16-1.1
Followup-For: Bug #1009198
X-Debbugs-Cc: konomikitten at gmail.com

> Looking at that list, it seems Wine uses non-free fonts as fallback at
> least for Latin1 characters.

It might be that, I'm really not sure and I was hoping for someone who
is extremely knowledgeable with fonts or wine or both to chime in.

There is one thing I found during my testing, if you open
DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf with FontForge [FontForge.png] and do the
following: Element -> Font Info -> Unicode Ranges you'll see that the font
declares at least according to Font Forge that it does support Basic Latin
U+0020-U+007E/95. Double clicking these entries will jump to the relevant
characters and when I double click Basic Latin it obviously jumps to an
empty set of characters.

I noticed when I checked other ranges too such as Thai U+0E00-U+0E7F1/87 that
they too are missing their characters.

Considering Font Forge states: "This pane is information only and shows the
characters actually in the font..." is it possible that when Google removed
the extra characters in the commit I cited in my original report that they
failed to update what ranges the font supports or something along those
lines?

Again, I am no expert in fonts or FontForge but I hope this might be a
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