Bug 10064

Summary:	Font Book displays non-Latin sample for Sans
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Benjamin Esham <benjamin>
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Mac OS X (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	screenshot showing Font Book's display for all four fonts

Description Benjamin Esham 2007-02-22 10:13:43 UTC

Mac OS X's Font Book application displays samples for each font installed on the system.  For Latin-alphabet fonts it displays the uppercase and lowercase Latin alphabet; for Asian fonts it displays Asian characters, and so on.  When I select DejaVu Sans the sample displayed is either Arabic (for Bold and Book) or another alphabet (Cherokee?) (for Bold Oblique and Oblique).  This does not affect the performance of the font itself, as far as I can tell, but it highly annoying and unusual.

Comment 1 Benjamin Esham 2007-02-22 10:18:03 UTC

Created attachment 8817 [details]
screenshot showing Font Book's display for all four fonts

Comment 2 Ben Laenen 2007-02-22 11:18:56 UTC

That's Font Book behaviour that we cannot control. The multiple scripts in DejaVu makes it think that the base script of the font is Arabic in the left screenshots or Armenian in the right ones. It would be better for Font Book to notice that there is more than one script besides Latin and it should default to Latin then. Anyway, it can only be fixed in Font Book, nothing we can do to make it display Latin.

Greetings,
Ben

Comment 3 Benjamin Esham 2007-02-22 12:01:26 UTC

I have reported this issue to Apple via ADC.

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