culmus-fonts packaging bug / Non-responsive maintainer

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Mamoru Tasaka wrote, at 06/02/2010 08:12 PM +9:00:
> Michael Schwendt wrote, at 06/02/2010 06:49 PM +9:00:
>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/570819
>>
>> A ticket opened on March 5th, but Pravin Satpute just doesn't
>> respond.
>>
>> Does anyone know the languages involved here (lang=he, lang=yi)
>> and can fix this fonts package, please? Thanks in advance.
>
> I will vote that this must be fixed in yum side (or fontconfig or rpm).
>
> This provides is automatically generated by /usr/lib/rpm/fontconfig.prov
> and this reads:
> --------------------------------------------------------
>       13  fcquery=/usr/bin/fc-query
>       14
>       15  [ -x $fcquery ] || exit 0
>       16
>       17  # filter out anything outside main fontconfig path
>       18  grep /usr/share/fonts/ |
>       19  while read fn; do
>       20      $fcquery --format '%{=pkgkit}' "${fn}" 2>  /dev/null
>       21  done
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> So:
> $ fc-query --format '%{=pkgkit}' MiriamCLM-Bold.ttf
> font(miriamclm)
> font(מרים)
> font(:lang=he)
> font(:lang=yi)
>
> Also:
> [tasaka1 at localhost ~]$ rpm -q vlgothic-p-fonts
> vlgothic-p-fonts-20100416-3.fc14.noarch
> [tasaka1 at localhost ~]$ rpm -q --provides vlgothic-p-fonts | grep "ゴシック"
> font(vlpゴシック)
>
> So I guess this issue will affect other fonts related packages.
>

By the way "מרים" ("\xd7\x9e\xd7\xa8\xd7\x99\xd7\x9d") itself seems a valid UTF-8 string.

Mamoru