FS#32932 - [fontconfig] font "Wingdings" can not be displayed correctly

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dale Wang (bsidb.wzk) - Sunday, 02 December 2012, 01:39 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 30 December 2012, 06:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
libXft has some problems when displaying the font "Wingdings" from M$ Windows. All the characters in the font "Wingdings" are displayed as a little square. When I used the program "xfd" in xorg-xfd to inspect on the font, "xfd" didn't response correctly and CPU usage is very high.
This bug also affects other programs like conky, Font Viewer in Gnome(Font Viewer in Gnome can not display the characters in Wingdings correctly), WPS For Linux and so on.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
libxft 2.3.1-1
xorg-xfd 1.1.1-1


Steps to reproduce:
1.Install the font file "Wingdings" from the attachment
2.Use "fc-list | grep Wingdings" to see whether it is installed correctly
3.Run "xfd -fa Wingdings"
4.All the characters are little squares
5.Press the button "Next"
6.xfd doesn't response.
[you can use other tools to see bugs]
1.In conky,add the following line to .conkyrc
"${font Wingdings:size=16}I"
2.See the conky display on desktop
3.You will find that it is a square but not a normal character.
[LibreOffice can display that font]
Goto LibreOffice, choose the font as "Wingdings", type "ABCDEFG", you will see the characters stored in this font.

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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 30 December 2012, 06:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  upstream is aware of it.
Comment by Dale Wang (bsidb.wzk) - Saturday, 29 December 2012, 10:30 GMT
Downgrade the fontconfig package from 2.10.2 to 2.8.0 solves the problem.
So it is a problem in fontconfig package.
Thank you for your concerning.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 29 December 2012, 16:37 GMT Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Saturday, 29 December 2012, 23:27 GMT
Please do not attach propietary fonts to our bug tracker. Thanks.
Comment by Dale Wang (bsidb.wzk) - Sunday, 30 December 2012, 01:47 GMT
to Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
Sorry for attaching that. I will be careful next time.

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