Bug 11043 - Currency symbols missing in range U+20A0 to U+20B5
Summary: Currency symbols missing in range U+20A0 to U+20B5
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG
Alias: None
Product: DejaVu
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Deja Vu bugs
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Reported: 2007-05-23 02:20 UTC by Ash Searle
Modified: 2007-09-27 04:07 UTC (History)
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Description Ash Searle 2007-05-23 02:20:13 UTC 
Only two or three currency symbols have been implemented from 23 specified in the given range.

Unicode specify the glpyhs for each code in this PDF: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf

More complete lists of currency symbols are avaialble at xe.com and wikipedia:
http://www.xe.com/symbols.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol
Comment 1 John Karp 2007-09-26 11:08:40 UTC 
Could you specify:

Which version of the font you are using,
which operating system you are using,
and the application,

because any recent version of DejaVu should have all 23 present.
Comment 2 Ash Searle 2007-09-27 03:15:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Which version of the font you are using,

DejaVu Sans 2.17 (the latest font available at the time I filed this.)
I've just updated to 2.20, and am seeing the same problem.

> which operating system you are using,

Windows XP (SP2)

> and the application,

Character Map

> because any recent version of DejaVu should have all 23 present.

I was using Character Map to check, because I know web-browsers will just substitute a different font for missing glphs, so even though I can see the currency symbols in an HTML file, I can't be sure they're coming from DejaVu.

Character Map shows the glyphs from U+20A0 to U+20AF, but then skips to U+20D0 (i.e. does not show the currency symbols from U+20B0 to U+20B5)

If you think/know that Character Map is bugged, can you recommend another tool for checking specific glyphs in a specific font?
Comment 3 Denis Jacquerye 2007-09-27 03:54:56 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> > which operating system you are using,
> 
> Windows XP (SP2)

SP2 was released on August 6, 2004.
  
> Character Map shows the glyphs from U+20A0 to U+20AF, but then skips to U+20D0
> (i.e. does not show the currency symbols from U+20B0 to U+20B5)

U+20B2-U+20B5 were added in Unicode 4.1.0 (March 2005) so I don't know if XP SP2 can handle them. U+20B0-U+20B1, added in Unicode 3.2.0 (March, 2002), should be handled.

> If you think/know that Character Map is bugged, can you recommend another tool
> for checking specific glyphs in a specific font?

BabelMap is apparently good.
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
Comment 4 Ash Searle 2007-09-27 04:07:24 UTC 
Things are looking good in BabelMap (using 'single font', with DejaVu Sans)

Obviously a bug in Character Map... so I'm resolving this with NOTOURBUG.

Thanks

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