Bug 12501

Summary:	OpenOffice: Wrong glyph for capital letter a with acute in DejaVu Sans
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Andres Nogueiras <aaugusto>
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	highest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
URL:	http://www.dte.uvigo.es/home/andres_nogueiras/wrong-capital-a-with-tilde.png
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Select simbol inteface of Open Office showing wrong gliph

Description Andres Nogueiras 2007-09-20 09:32:00 UTC

The gliph for capital letter a with a tilde (Á) shows as an inverted admiration sign.

I've discover it while trying to write "Ánodo" (anodus in spanish) in Open Office.

Also shows wrong when font is embedded as a subset in a PDF document.

Others DejaVu fonts set are OK.

Comment 1 Andres Nogueiras 2007-09-20 09:33:18 UTC

Created attachment 11660 [details]
Select simbol inteface of Open Office showing wrong gliph

Comment 2 Denis Jacquerye 2007-09-20 10:34:22 UTC

Which platform and what version of DejaVu are you using?
The glyph is correct in the font, as far as I know, so either the application you use has a bug or the packaged version you have buggy.

Comment 3 Ben Laenen 2007-09-20 11:51:30 UTC

Also, does the wrong glyph show up in other programs as well?

Comment 4 Ben Laenen 2007-09-20 11:54:11 UTC

Maybe it is a problem with font caching while installing a newer version. In that case rebooting your computer would fix it.

Comment 5 James Cloos 2007-09-24 10:12:57 UTC

Your Description shows the character Á (U+00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE)
and not Ã (U+00C3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE).

The character names in the UCS and Unicode follow the French for acute, grave, tilde, diaeresis, etc.  I don’t know whether they have the same names in Spanish.  

Is it possible that you are getting the wrong character from your input system rather than the wrong glyph from the font?

Comment 6 Denis Jacquerye 2007-09-24 10:54:38 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Is it possible that you are getting the wrong character from your input system
> rather than the wrong glyph from the font?

The screenshot (attachment #11660 [details]) from Comment #1 shows OpenOffice’s special character selector with A with acute having the wrong glyph.
-- fixed the bug report title.

Comment 7 Andres Nogueiras 2007-09-26 08:30:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Which platform and what version of DejaVu are you using?

I'm using GNU/Linux openSuSE 10.2 x86 and dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.19-1.guru.suse102.rpm

> The glyph is correct in the font, as far as I know, so either the application
> you use has a bug or the packaged version you have buggy.

Yes, the question was solved in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12501#c4

The font caching "misspelled" the glyph

Sorry for the "false positive"

Comment 8 Andres Nogueiras 2007-09-26 08:34:44 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Your Description shows the character Á (U+00C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH
> ACUTE) and not Ã (U+00C3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE).
> 
> The character names in the UCS and Unicode follow the French for acute, grave,
> tilde, diaeresis, etc.  I don’t know whether they have the same names in
> Spanish.

Thank you for helping correcting and clarifying this question.

In Spanish we only have tilde. We distinguish the position in the word to say it is acute (agudo), grave or "esdrújula" (no translation to english). It is a linguistic distinction, not a caligraphic.

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