Package: fonts-droid-fallback Version: 1:6.0.1r16-1.1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: konomikit...@gmail.com
Currently if you have fonts-droid-fallback installed and run a program via wine that uses both Japanese characters and Latin characters you will get tofu characters for English (squares) [Broken Characters.png]. Removing the fonts-droid-fallback package fixes this problem [Working Characters.png]. This seems to occur because the font provided in fonts-droid-fallback (DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf) lacks Latin characters. This can easily be observed with Font Viewer by selecting Lorem Ipsum [Lorem Ipsum.png]. This problem only affects wine and may be due to wine partially supporting Uniscribe [1]. There's a few ways to go about fixing this issue though. First of all Google has abandoned the droid font [2] so it could be argued that the font should be removed from Debian. Another option is to go back to older versions of the font where Latin characters were present at some point in time Google removed a significant amount of characters from the droid font. I believe this change occurred in commit 034b20c102ee2e7ec1da09e2b080f35be4a5cf54 [3]. So going back to commit 0abd8a79cc19658305dae81e3eca32b45f268f96 [4] would restore many of the missing characters. Another option would be to change all packages recommending fonts-droid-fallback to suggesting it instead so it's not installed by default. Ultimately though these are just suggestions because I am unable to figure out why wine cannot handle DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf's lack of Latin characters. [1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Uniscribe [2] https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1223 [3] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/034b20c102ee2e7ec1da09e2b080f35be4a5cf54 [4] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/0abd8a79cc19658305dae81e3eca32b45f268f96 -- Package-specific info: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==================-=============-============-===================================================== ii fontconfig 2.13.1-4.4 amd64 generic font configuration library - support binaries ii libfreetype6:amd64 2.11.1+dfsg-1 amd64 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files ii libfreetype6:i386 2.11.1+dfsg-1 i386 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files ii libxft2:amd64 2.3.4-1 amd64 FreeType-based font drawing library for X -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages fonts-droid-fallback depends on: ii dpkg 1.21.7 Versions of packages fonts-droid-fallback recommends: ii fonts-noto-mono 20201225-1 Versions of packages fonts-droid-fallback suggests: ii fonts-noto 20201225-1 -- no debconf information
