[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1111405: fonts-freefont-ttf: gvim using mono fonts for Hebrew with vowels and diacritics - renders bad

[Avner Shapiro]

Package: fonts-freefont-ttf
Version: 20211204+svn4273-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: avforbus at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?
  - upgrading from bookworm to trixie.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
  - running gvim, moving to rightleft orientation, copying text from
    the bible - in Hebrew, with vowels and diacritics - as shown in
    the attached images.
* What was the outcome of this action?
  - the glyphs are bad. some letters are pushed to right, and it's
    just not right.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
  - same display as in bookworm. indeed, when I downgraded only these
    2 packages back to the bookworm version (dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fonts-freefont-ttf_20120503-10_all.deb dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fonts-freefont-otf_20120503-10_all.deb) everything settled fine again.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'trixie-backports-staging')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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