Dejavu Sans crashes applications for specific characters

Used to verify the bug report.

(I just managed to figure out how to add attachments..)

Confirmed. Here is the backtrace of the crash

The version of DejaVu in Ubuntu Dapper is 2.1.
I have verified that the crashing of applications appears in with DejaVu 2.2 as well.

Ubuntu Dapper uses DejaVu 2.1:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2005-December/003197.html

Reported this bug upstream, at the dejavu mailing list, see
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9761361&forum_id=40874
Any replies will appear at the end of the above URL.

I could not reproduce this bug in another GTK+ editor (I tried "tea"), therefore, I believe this is a gedit bug.

gedit 2.12.1 crashes when loading file or when user writes specific valid Unicode characters.

The bug appears when the user selects the Dejavu Sans font as the font to display text in the program.
It has been verified that gedit crashes on Dejavu Sans 2.1, 2.2 and possibly 2.3.

There is some chance that the bug exists in the cairo library (see stacktrace). Please comment on this.

It appears this is a bug in both (or either) Pango and DejavuSans (thanks to Behdad for this).

I filed a bug report for Pango for further investigation,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331833

An upgrade to Dejavu Sans 2.3 solves the problem. Only with Dejavu sans 2.1 gedit crashes..

I am raising the severity to Major, priority to High, as this affects greatly the support for the Greek language (and possibly other languages).

Specifically, see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331833

DejaVu Sans 2.1 (currently included in Dapper) can cause GNOME 2.14 applications to crash/hang when displaying specific characters. DejaVu Sans is the default desktop font for Greek and several other languages, therefore, it is likely to occur often.

It appears that the source of the bug has been in both DejaVu Sans 2.1 and GNOME libraries (probably in cairo/pango/fontconfig).

To solve the problem, we have verified that DejaVu 2.3 fixes this problem.

In addition, DejaVu Mono 2.1 does not have full coverage of Modern Greek, resulting in erroneous display (see bug 31890).

Therefore, could you please update the DejaVu package to include DejaVu 2.3?

Setting this bug to the correct package, ttf-dejavu.

Setting milestone to "ubuntu-6.04".

Also seems that there are some mistakes in the ttf-dejavu_2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb package:

1)The ttf-dejavu.hints provides wrong names for
a)DejaVuSansMono.ttf (lists the font as DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf)
b) DejaVuSansMono-BoldObligue.ttf (lists them as DejaVuSansMono-BoldOb.ttf)
c) DejaVuSerif.ttf (lists them as DejaVuSerif-Roman)

This has as a result in erroneous listing and broken symlinks of Dejavu fonts in defoma related directories

2)ttf-dejavu.hints does not provide ISO8859-7 for the dejavu fonts

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:19:48AM -0000, Kostas Papadimas wrote:
> Comment:
> Also seems that there are some mistakes in the ttf-
> dejavu_2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb package:
>
> 1)The ttf-dejavu.hints provides wrong names for
> a)DejaVuSansMono.ttf (lists the font as DejaVuSansMono-Roman.ttf)
> b) DejaVuSansMono-BoldObligue.ttf (lists them as DejaVuSansMono-BoldOb.ttf)
> c) DejaVuSerif.ttf (lists them as DejaVuSerif-Roman)
>
> This has as a result in erroneous listing and broken symlinks of Dejavu
> fonts in defoma related directories
>
> 2)ttf-dejavu.hints does not provide ISO8859-7 for the dejavu fonts

I think these should be filed as separate bugs. I'll definitely look at
problem (1) and try to get out a patch. It seems to affect Debian as
well.

Ming
2006.02.22

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:24:44PM -0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
> Comment:
> Setting milestone to "ubuntu-6.04".

I don't think this is how things work - unless you can upload to main
and plan to fix this yourself.

The proper procedure, I believe, is to ask for UVF/FF exception (check
ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list for details), meanwhile try to build
a package for version 2.3 and test it. After getting the exception
approval, find some developer that can upload to main and sponsor this.

Ming
2006.02.22

Rejecting, as this is not a gedit bug per se.

Rejecting as this is not a pango issue per se.

please check the package at http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/

2.3 uploaded in dapper