Bug#366760: Symbol problems in yelp

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 11:02 -0800, Scott Anderson a écrit :
> I've updated my locale to match Michael's.  But the problem remains.  Is this a font specific
> problem?  I'm pretty confused because I have another machine at home running the same
> configuration, but it does not have the bug.  Only this machine at work does.
> 
> Michael, what fonts are you using?  I'm using
> 
> Application font:  Bitstream Vera Sans Roman, size 8
> Document font:     Bitstream Vera Sans Roman, size 10
> Desktop font:      Bitstream Vera Sans Roman, size 8
> Window Title font: Bitstream Vera Serif Bold, size 8
> Fixed width font:  Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Roman, size 8

Things are more complicated than that. When a specific symbol is not
available in a font, fontconfig looks for it in another font of the same
family. For example, a Japanese character will be displayed when
selecting Bitstream Vera, but the actual font used will be Kochi
Mincho/Gothic.

What is happening here is that the document contains glyphs (U+2002 and
U+2003) that are available in ttf-dejavu (which is installed by default
on a desktop system) and not in ttf-bitstream-vera (just checked).

The solution is probably to add a Recommends: ttf-bitstream-vera for
yelp.
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