Package: fontconfig Version: 2.5.0-2 Severity: normal Hi!
I'm going mad on a font configuration awkwardness I cannot understand (nor solve!). Let me explain the issue. More or less at the time Debian etch was released (April 2007), I installed Debian testing on an amd64 box and went on happily tracking the testing branch (currently lenny). On that box I can correctly visit websites with non-latin fonts (arabic, cyrillic, greek, asian, armenian, indian, ...). E.g.: I can view all the language names (and corresponding localized pages) at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/ This was tested with Galeon and Epiphany. Great! More recently I upgraded some old Debian sarge i386 boxes to etch and then to testing (lenny). One of them is the one I'm currently writing this bug report from. These boxes were originally installed long ago, when Debian woody was the stable branch, and actually started as woody, then were upgraded to sarge, and then, as already said, to etch and to testing (lenny). On those boxes, I can correctly visit websites with some non-latin fonts (arabic, cyrillic, greek, armenian, indian), but not other ones (asian: korean, japanese and chinese). Non-working fonts are displayed as squares containing their hexadecimal values. OK, first thing I thought was a locale configuration problem. But they seem to be identical on the recently installed box (where everything works fine) and on the old upgraded boxes (where I cannot display asian fonts): $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= OK, second thing I thought was some missing font package on the old boxes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ dpkg -l | grep font | cut -b 1-68 ii console-data 2:1.05-1 ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2 ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2 ii fontconfig-config 2.5.0-2 ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre43-2 ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 ii libfont-afm-perl 1.19-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 ii libfontenc1 1:1.0.4-2 ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 ii libt1-5 5.1.2-2 ii libxfont1 1:1.3.2-1 ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 ii lmodern 1.010x-5 ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-0.2 ii scalable-cyrfonts-tex 4.12 ii texlive-fonts-extra 2007.dfsg.1-1 ii texlive-fonts-extra-doc 2007.dfsg.1-1 ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2007-13 ii texlive-fonts-recommended-doc 2007-13 ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.23-1 ii ttf-dejavu-extra 2.23-1 ii ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-12 ii x-ttcidfont-conf 27 ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 ii xfonts-cronyx-100dpi 2.3.8-6 ii xfonts-cronyx-75dpi 2.3.8-6 ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.0-5 ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.2-3 ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 ii xfonts-terminus 4.26-1 ii xfonts-terminus-oblique 4.26-1 ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.1-2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ dpkg -l | grep font | cut -b 1-68 ii console-data 2:1.05-1 ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2 ii fontconfig 2.5.0-2 ii fontconfig-config 2.5.0-2 ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre43-2 ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 ii libconsole 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 ii libfontconfig1-dev 2.5.0-2 ii libfontenc1 1:1.0.4-2 ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 ii libfreetype6-dev 2.3.5-1+b1 ii libt1-5 5.1.2-2 ii libttf2 1.4pre.cvs20060210-1 ii libxfont1 1:1.3.2-1 ii libxft-dev 2.1.12-2 ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 ii lmodern 1.010x-5 ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-0.2 ii scalable-cyrfonts-tex 4.12 ii texlive-fonts-extra 2007.dfsg.1-1 ii texlive-fonts-extra-doc 2007.dfsg.1-1 ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2007-13 ii texlive-fonts-recommended-doc 2007-13 ii ttf-dejavu-core 2.23-1 ii ttf-dejavu-extra 2.23-1 ii ttf-dustin 20030517-6 ii ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-12 ii ttf-opensymbol 1:2.4.0-5 ii x-ttcidfont-conf 27 ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 ii xfonts-75dpi-transcoded 1:1.0.0-4 ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 ii xfonts-cronyx-100dpi 2.3.8-6 ii xfonts-cronyx-75dpi 2.3.8-6 ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.0-5 ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.2-3 ii xfonts-nexus 0.0.2-12 ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 ii xfonts-terminus 4.26-1 ii xfonts-terminus-oblique 4.26-1 ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.1-2 It turns out that the box where asian fonts are *not* correctly displayed has *more* font packages installed than the other box! Please note that the newer box (where everything works fine) has even an older fontconfig version (because I put it on hold for unrelated reasons...), yet it works fine. I really cannot understand what's going on. I never manually changed the font configuration (as far as I remember). Checking differences between files in /etc/fonts in the two boxes shows that everything is identical, except for /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf But why do these two files differ? If it helps, I can send the two differing 30-defoma.conf files (well, to be more precise, I can send the two files pointed by the two 30-defoma.conf symlinks...) Indeed, it seems that the two boxes select different fonts for the same request: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ fc-match sans-serif Bitstream-Vera-Sans.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ fc-match serif Bitstream-Vera-Serif.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Serif" "Roman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ LC_ALL=zh-CN fc-match sans-serif 18x18ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ LC_ALL=zh-CN fc-match serif 18x18ja.pcf.gz: "Fixed" "ja" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ fc-match sans-serif Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ fc-match serif VeraSe.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Serif" "Roman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ LC_ALL=zh-CN fc-match sans-serif Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ LC_ALL=zh-CN fc-match serif VeraSe.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Serif" "Roman" Which is kinda strange, because in bug #352378 it is claimed that Bitstream Vera is a better choice. My experience is quite the opposite: I cannot see asian fonts on the box that seems to choose Bitstream Vera... OK, now I am really lost. After this *long* bug report, can you help me? Is this a bug in the configuration handling by fontconfig? Is there a manual workaround? How can I fix the configuration of the old upgraded boxes? Thanks for any help. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages fontconfig depends on: ii defoma 0.11.10-0.2 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f ii fontconfig-config 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime fontconfig recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic * fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: true * fontconfig/hinting_type: Native -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? 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