Bug 21922

Summary: Sans mono: celsius 0x2103 too thin
Product: DejaVu Reporter: Torsten Bronger <bronger>
Component: Mono SansAssignee: Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
URL: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1117730/mono-2103.png
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Description Torsten Bronger 2009-05-25 01:53:13 UTC
In DejaVu sans mono, the degree celsius sign ℃ is too thin and not really sans serif.  It is also too wide, which may be intentional, though.

The URL points to an OpenOffice screenshot on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Comment 1 Ben Laenen 2009-05-25 03:15:10 UTC
DejaVu Mono doesn't have the degree Celcius symbol. What you're seeing is glyph substition in process: since the font doesn't have the symbol, the renderer will look for it in another font to display it on your screen, so you wouldn't see a black box or so. Hence the style is completely different and the width doesn't match.

By the way, it's not really recommended to use the degree Celcius symbol U+2103. It's best to type degree and C like °C.

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