[Bug 348123] New: inappropriate font choice depending on language
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 Summary: inappropriate font choice depending on language Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: X.Org AssignedTo: sndirsch@novell.com ReportedBy: uli@novell.com QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- Running, for example, konsole with language en_US, a "good" (anti-aliased) font is used for Latin text in UI elements, but a "bad" (bitmap, too large) font is used for Japanese text. Running the same application with LANG=ja_JP.utf-8, it's exactly the other way round: a "bad" (bitmap) font is used for the UI, but a "good" (anti-aliased) font is used for Japanese text. Screenshots follow. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 User uli@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123#c1 --- Comment #1 from Ulrich Hecht <uli@novell.com> 2007-12-12 08:43:58 MST --- Created an attachment (id=187255) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=187255) konsole in English -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 User uli@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123#c2 --- Comment #2 from Ulrich Hecht <uli@novell.com> 2007-12-12 08:44:26 MST --- Created an attachment (id=187256) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=187256) konsole in Japanese -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|sndirsch@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Component|X.Org |X11 Applications QAContact|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |mfabian@novell.com Component|X11 Applications |X.Org QAContact|sndirsch@novell.com |xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sndirsch@novell.com AssignedTo|mfabian@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Component|X.Org |X11 Applications QAContact|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com |sndirsch@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |mfabian@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123#c3 Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|sndirsch@novell.com |mfabian@novell.com AssignedTo|mfabian@novell.com |kde-maintainers@suse.de Component|X11 Applications |KDE QAContact|sndirsch@novell.com |qa@suse.de --- Comment #3 from Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@novell.com> 2007-12-14 11:40:29 MST --- Well, that's a KDE issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123#c4 --- Comment #4 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> 2008-02-05 10:39:01 MST --- I wonder why the locale makes a difference ofr Uli in the UI of konsole. For me it doesn’t. The language and fonts of the UI come from kcontrol, therefore I get exactly the same UI whether I start LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 konsole & LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 konsole & Uli> Running, for example, konsole with language en_US “en_US” is a typo, isn’t it? “LC_ALL=en_US konsole” gives a terminal running in en_US locale (single byte) and Japanese is displayed as question marks anyway. The font I can see in the prompt in both your screenshots is apparently “Misc Console”, a 8x16 pixel bitmap font. Qt3¹ apparently has lots of problems using scalable fonts and bitmap fonts at the same time, this often leads to clipping of the bitmap fonts (as in your “konsole-in-english.png” screenshot). A reasonable workaround for this problem is to specify a scalable font for konsole as the main font in the font setup menu of console, for example “DejaVu Sans Mono”. If I do this, I always get a scalable font selected for Japanese as well and there is no clipping.² ¹ By the way, it doesn’t seem to be much better in Qt4 either, mixing bitmap fonts and scalable fonts tends to cause clipping of the bitmap fonts, see bug #357258. ² But the Japanese characters don’t set correctly on the baselines when starting konsole in en_US.UTF-8 locale. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 User mfabian@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123#c5 --- Comment #5 from Mike Fabian <mfabian@novell.com> 2008-02-05 10:54:49 MST --- Created an attachment (id=193259) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=193259) konsole-in-english-or-japanese.png top: “LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 konsole” bottom: “LANG=en_US.UTF-8 konsole” Note the much smaller line spacing in the en_US.UTF-8 case and that the Japanese characters are positioned too low (reaching below the baseline. They should sit on top of the baseline like in the ja_JP.UTF-8 screenshot). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348123 Stephan Binner <stbinner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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