#800430 debian-i18n: Glitch in Sans Serif font with Polish diacritic sign

Package:
debian-i18n
Source:
debian-i18n
Submitter:
Jan Stolarek
Date:
2015-09-30 04:45:04 UTC
Severity:
minor
#800430#5
Date:
2015-09-29 09:02:03 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

Sans Serif font shipped with Debian does not correctly render Polish letter ż (z with a dot above it). With font sizes 13 or smaller and italics the letter is rendered as z with a vertical bar over it (instead of just a dot). This problem appears in Wheezy but I've also seen it in the installer of Jessie.
#800430#10
Date:
2015-09-29 16:50:07 UTC
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tags -1 moreinfo
thanks

Quoting Jan Stolarek (fremenzone@poczta.onet.pl):
Which font? In what desktop environment?

This bug report should be assigned to the package providing this font,
not blindly to "debian-i18n", I'm afraid. And without knowing what
font we're taking about, there's little that can be done.
#800430#15
Date:
2015-09-29 19:23:28 UTC
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In the list of fonts it is listed simply as "Sans serif"
The attached screenshot is from Trinity Desktop Environment, but as stated the same problem
appears in Debian 8 installer, and I suppose that counts as "no desktop environment" - see
attached picture.
Sorry about that - I was doing my best here :-/

Jan
#800430#20
Date:
2015-09-30 04:43:07 UTC
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Quoting Janek S. (fremenzone@poczta.onet.pl):


I suspect this might be in the DejaVu or FreeFont fonts....IIRC, we
already had such reports for these fotns and, IIRC also, the problem
was *not* in the font but in the rendering engine.