[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 604793] New: [PATCH] Correct Font Information for MS Symbol encoding

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Summary: [PATCH] Correct Font Information for MS Symbol encoding

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           Summary: [PATCH] Correct Font Information for MS Symbol
                    encoding
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 13
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: fontmatrix
        AssignedTo: pnemade(a)redhat.com
        ReportedBy: paul(a)frixxon.co.uk
         QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: pnemade(a)redhat.com, i18n-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
    Classification: Fedora


Created an attachment (id=424544)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=424544)
Patch to correct the display of name records (same as upstream)

Description of problem:

For fonts that have the name table encoding as MS Symbol (platform 3, encoding
0), Fontmatrix currently displays the string "Here, imagine some nice symbols!"
for all name records, because the specifications don't seem to say how the name
recs are encoded.

I created a patch to fix this six months ago and submitted it upstream, as bug
14897 <http://gna.org/bugs/?14897>;, but upstream development seems rather
sluggish, so I'd like to recommend this patch for Fedora's package in advance
of acceptance upstream.

The patch changes Fontmatrix to interpret the name record encoding as UTF-16BE.
I produced the patch against Subversion revision 1088, but I have just tested
it against r1073 included in Fedora and it works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

fontmatrix-0.6.99-4.r1073.fc13

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import a dingbat font into Fontmatrix.
2. Go to the Font Information tab.

Actual results:

For fonts that have "MS Symbol" listed alongside "Charmaps List", all
other
name records will say "Here, imagine some nice symbols!" instead of showing
real information.

Expected results:

Dingbat fonts have proper information in the name records, but Fontmatrix
doesn't know how to display it.

Additional info:

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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED

--- Comment #1 from Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-17 00:47:53 EDT ---
Can you give me images of what is existing and what will be new information in
fontmatrix window?

I applied patch and run fontmatrix but I don't know where to see changes. Also,
I am unable to see "Here, imagine some nice symbols!"

Dingbat font I checked is /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/d050000l.pfb

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--- Comment #2 from Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-17 01:14:47 EDT ---
Also, I am going to scratch build new fontmatrix with your patch on koji. Can
you check this build is what you want and working?
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2254775

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--- Comment #3 from Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk&gt; 2010-06-17 02:26:14 EDT
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Created an attachment (id=424681)
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Free symbol font

This font is marked internally as freeware, and displays the problem shown in
the screenshots (next two attachments).

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--- Comment #4 from Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk&gt; 2010-06-17 02:27:58 EDT
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Created an attachment (id=424682)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=424682)
Fontmatrix showing symbol font before patch

Note that the Charmaps List says "MS Symbol". There can be multiple charmaps,
but the font must contain this one for the bug to show.

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--- Comment #5 from Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk&gt; 2010-06-17 02:31:32 EDT
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Created an attachment (id=424684)
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Fontmatrix showing symbol font after patch

Fontmatrix can now correctly show the contents of the name records.

Note that Fontmatrix loads name records into its database when fonts are
imported, so to see the improvement, you need to wipe the database (rm -r
~/.Fontmatrix) before re-importing the font.

I have 1039 fonts that are affected by this bug, and this patch corrects the
display for all of them.

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--- Comment #6 from Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk&gt; 2010-06-17 02:38:46 EDT
---
(In reply to comment #2)
>  Also, I am going to scratch build new fontmatrix with your patch on
> koji. Can
>  you check this build is what you want and working?
>  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2254775     
I downloaded and installed the x86_64 RPM linked from there, and it solves the
problem, thank you.

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--- Comment #7 from Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-17 05:35:47 EDT ---
Do you know any font in Fedora that is having this problem?

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--- Comment #8 from Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk&gt; 2010-06-17 06:23:21 EDT
---
(In reply to comment #7)
>  Do you know any font in Fedora that is having this problem?    
I don't offhand, but I haven't installed every Fedora font package. The example
font you picked in comment 1 didn't show the problem because it is a Type 1
font. Only TrueType fonts have name tables.

I could certainly package the font I attached to this bug ;-)

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--- Comment #9 from Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-18 00:14:53 EDT ---
I tried to reproduce this problem with existing Fedora packaged fonts. But
unable to reproduce it. So, I think if I need to commit this patch, we should
have this bug reproducible.

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--- Comment #10 from Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-18 00:26:23 EDT ---
Ok. I had a look at font file now. Saw its not Unicode font. I think its better
to ask upstream to make it unicode.

I use many commands but no satisfactory output has come from this font like
fontaine, gnome-font-viewer, fontmatrix, otfinfo.


I will close this as NOTABUG as this needs actually fix in font file not in
fontmatrix.

There are many True type fonts in Fedora whose information is correctly shown
in fontmatrix.

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--- Comment #11 from Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com&gt; 2010-06-18 03:09:51 EDT ---
Ok. After having discussion with reporter on IRC, I see we should have this
patch committed.

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--- Comment #12 from Fedora Update System <updates(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; 2010-06-18
03:13:15 EDT ---
fontmatrix-0.6.99-6.r1073.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontmatrix-0.6.99-6.r1073.fc13

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--- Comment #13 from Fedora Update System <updates(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; 2010-06-21
08:53:02 EDT ---
fontmatrix-0.6.99-6.r1073.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing
repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug
report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fontmatrix'.  You can provide
feedback for this update here:
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontmatrix-0.6.99-6.r1073.fc13

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--- Comment #14 from Fedora Update System <updates(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; 2010-07-07
13:52:02 EDT ---
fontmatrix-0.6.99-6.r1073.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable
repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug
report.

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Fedora Update System <updates(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ON_QA                       |CLOSED
   Fixed In Version|                            |fontmatrix-0.6.99-6.r1073.f
                   |                            |c13
         Resolution|                            |ERRATA

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