Mongolian is just an example. Var selectors do not appear to work in any script in gedit or LibreOffice.
They do work in Pango and Firefox (which uses Pango). On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Rolf Leggewie <736...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > I'm sure not many people have experience with Mongolian, so it's very > well possible this is a bug in the upstream code. You might want to > discuss your issue at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product > =gnome-control-center to see if you can find more information. If you > do, please make sure to let us know of the URL for the upstream ticket > here. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736153 > > Title: > Unicode variation selectors not supported > > Status in LibreOffice: > New > Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: > New > > Bug description: > I'm trying to typeset some texts in ancient Mongolian and Phags-pa, > both of which have been included in Unicode. For Mongolian, I've > installed the ttf-manchufont package. For Phags-pa, I've used the font > available here: http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/12/phags-pa- > shaping-behaviour.html > > Both languages use the Unicode Variation Selectors. In a nutshell, the > combination character + variation selector should change the > representation of the character to a different variant. See the table > of Standardised Unicode variants here: > http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.html > > The expected behavior does not work in any of the packages I've tried > (gedit, gimp and OpenOffice). Instead, the variation selector remains > as it's own character and the preceding character is unmodified (see > attachment). > > This is NOT an issue with the fonts because: > a. The fonts have the appropriate substitutions defined, as can be observed > by editing the fonts in e.g. fontforge. > b. The expected behavior happens in WIndows 7 using these fonts. > > This is an issue with whatever package handles Unicode glyph > substitution. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 > Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11 > Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic x86_64 > NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Wed Mar 16 10:30:20 2011 > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 > (20100816.1) > MachineType: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD MS-7576 > ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-27-generic > root=UUID=136a2918-79f6-4777-a8b5-b9d86515a24b ro quiet splash > ProcEnviron: > LANGUAGE=en_US:en > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: xorg > Symptom: display > dmi.bios.date: 12/17/2009 > dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. > dmi.bios.version: V4.0 > dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. > dmi.board.name: 790GX-G65 (MS-7576) > dmi.board.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD > dmi.board.version: 1.0 > dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. > dmi.chassis.type: 3 > dmi.chassis.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD > dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 > dmi.modalias: > dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV4.0:bd12/17/2009:svnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:pnMS-7576:pvr1.0:rvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:rn790GX-G65(MS-7576):rvr1.0:cvnMICRO-STARINTERNATIONALCO.,LTD:ct3:cvr1.0: > dmi.product.name: MS-7576 > dmi.product.version: 1.0 > dmi.sys.vendor: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD > glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > system: > distro: Ubuntu > codename: maverick > architecture: x86_64 > kernel: 2.6.35-27-generic > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/libreoffice/+bug/736153/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736153 Title: Unicode variation selectors not supported To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libreoffice/+bug/736153/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
