Ubuntu
yelp package

weird bug in fonts rendering

Bug #28638 reported by Baptiste Mille-Mathias
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Yelp
Fix Released
Medium
yelp (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Weird caracters appears for few weeks in few application, for instance in yelp.
I aatach a screenshot.

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Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) wrote : screenshot

the bug in yelp

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Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) wrote : New screenshot

The caracter glitch changed in the few past days.

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

I see this too. However I only see it in yelp, so I'm marking this as a bug in yelp. If this is wrong, please feel free to slap me.

Changed in fontconfig:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) wrote :

I see this bug in Yelp, but no other applications.

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Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) wrote :

Today the glitch caracter again :)
I attach a screenshot

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Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) wrote :

new caracter

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Baptiste Mille-Mathias (bmillemathias) wrote :

I found this bug in mails in evolution, it was spam mails but its just to inform you.

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Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

U+2002 is supposed to be En Space ( ), and U+2003 ( )is supposed to be Em Space. If you check these characters in Character map, it displays correctly - but you can't see them as they are spaces. When you copy them from character map, you get the results above.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in yelp:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

fixed upstream

Changed in yelp:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

This upload fixes the issue:

 yelp (2.13.6-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - If beagle daemon is not running fall back to basic search
     - Removed redundant search text entry
     - Fix some memory leaks
     - Re-applied a11y patch
     - set MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO in environ to fix broken characters
       (Ubuntu: #28638)
     - Escape characters when searching
     - Fix resizing issues by focus print preview on html widget
     - Updated translations

Changed in yelp:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Ted Treadwell (ttread) wrote :

Character glitch appears fixed in Flight 5

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in yelp:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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