[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #6967: haiku does not display Arabic characters anymore
- From: "mmlr" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:34:53 -0000
#6967: haiku does not display Arabic characters anymore
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Reporter: khallebal | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Changes (by mmlr):
* status: assigned => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Comment:
Basically this one is invalid. As stated by the reporter choosing a font
other than dejavu triggers this, which is expected behaviour when the
chosen font doesn't contain glyphs for the characters at hand. The only
thing that changed with the font fallback was that those characters
weren't rendered at all instead of being rendered as "missing glyph
boxes". This has been corrected by now (see #7077), but now, same as
before the font fallback introduction, if both the chosen font and the
fallback font (currently always vl gothic) are missing the glyph, they
will simply be rendered as the "missing glyph box".
Conclusion being: The ticket as is (i.e. "doesn't display anymore") is
invalid, as it never did when selecting the wrong fonts (it just went from
rendering boxes to rendering nothing, which is no fixed). The issue that
the font fallback mechanism should be more clever and try to find more
suitable fallback fonts still stands of course, but belongs to a separate
ticket that I'm going to create (if there isn't one already).
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6967#comment:9>
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