Changes between Version 6 and Version 9 of Ticket #19171


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Apr 19, 2009, 7:41:42 AM (15 years ago)
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jeremyhu (Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia)
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  • Ticket #19171

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  • Ticket #19171 – Description

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    1 I noticed that some fonts in firefox-x11 render incorrectly, and a message is spewed to the console:
     1I noticed that some fonts in firefox-x11 render incorrectly.  I narrowed it down to a simple test case:
    22
    33{{{
    4 (firefox-bin:37135): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 0x6EAD
    5 (firefox-bin:37135): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
    6 (firefox-bin:37135): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD
    7 (firefox-bin:37135): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GDEF table 0x6EAD
    8 (firefox-bin:37135): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
    9 (firefox-bin:37135): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GPOS table 0x6EAD
     4$ fc-match Fixed
     512x13ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja"
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     7$pango-view --font="Fixed" /etc/passwd
     8# See garbled cruft in the view
     9
     10$  fc-match Fixed:style=Regular
     117x13.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "Regular"
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     13$pango-view --font="Fixed:Style=Regular" /etc/passwd
     14# See an expected render
    1015}}}
    1116
    12 The font having trouble is whatever is picked for the boxes in:
    13 http://fedorasolved.org/mobile/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras
    14 
    15 It looks like Courier at first guess, but I haven't looked into it more specifically.
    16 
    17 Doing  some searching, I found a similar issue last year regarding a font in wireshark (note 0x6ead == 28333):
    18  * http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2008-April/msg00008.html
    19  * http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/15052
    20  * http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/15209
    21  * http://graphviz.org/bugs/b1318.html
    22 
    23 The "fix" was to disable the freetype renderer for +quartz... well that's all well and good for the +quartz variant, but what about the X11 users?  It looks like the problem is persisting for X11
    24 
     17It looks like we need some logic in the config file to prefer style=Regular if no style is designated