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After upgradeing to Lucid, unexpectedly-using bitmap font in Japanese Environment (upgrading regression)

Bug #569442 reported by Fumihito YOSHIDA on 2010-04-24

This bug affects 3 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
fontconfig (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
Lucid	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
language-selector (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Arne Goetje
Lucid	Fix Released	Low	Arne Goetje
ttf-wqy-zenhei (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned
Lucid	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: fontconfig

When Hardy/Karmic users with Japanese environment upgrade to Lucid,
Desktop fonts are unexpectedly-using bitmapped/Traditonal Chinese.

This is regression of UX/Desktop.

How to reproduce:
   1) Install Karmic or Hardy with Japanese languages.
     ( or, install with other langs,
       "System" -> "Administartion" -> "Language Support" ->
         set "Japanese" to first at 'Language for menus and windows:')
   2) Upgrade with "update-manager -d"
   3) When upgrade completed, your desktop is render with bitmap-fonts.

Actual result:
   - Desktop are render with
     - Traditonal Chinese
     - bitmap-fonts
     ("WenQuanYi Zen Hei" / ttf-wqy-zenhei).

Expected result:
   - Desktop are render with
     - Japanese
     - outline-fonts
     (such as "Takao P Gothic"(ttf-takao-pgothic).

Workaround in "24 Apr 2010":
a) exec: "sudo apt-get remove ttf-wqy-zenhei"

b) exec: " sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/44-wqy-zenhei.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/66-wqy-zenhei-sharp.conf"
*and* patch to /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf (see attachment).

Background:
ttf-wqy-zenhei is included some fontconfig configs, it provides two too-fast timing configurations.
- "sans/sans-serief" default font changing to Zen Hei: 44-wqy-zenhei.conf
- "sans/sans-serief" bitmap enabling: 66-wqy-zenhei-sharp.conf

Related(not dupulicate)bugs:
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-wqy-zenhei/+bug/475240
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-wqy-zenhei/+bug/521163

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: fontconfig 2.8.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 24 23:56:52 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: fontconfig

See original description

Tags:

Related branches

lp://staging/~arnegoetje/language-selector/language-selector-lucid-0.5.x

lp://staging/ubuntu/lucid-proposed/language-selector

lp://staging/ubuntu/maverick/language-selector

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote on 2010-04-24:

Dependencies.txt Edit (659 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote on 2010-04-24:

Add Takao(new Japanese preffred font) to Han (ja) fonts enum lists. Edit (906 bytes, text/plain)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-04-24

tags:

added: patch

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote on 2010-04-24:

notes:
In other hands, this problem triggererd by binding level change at latest language-selector. It changed (strong => same) at /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf (from language-selector), if we can change this binding, problems could be fixed.

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote on 2010-04-24:

dpkg -l outputs Edit (282.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Ingo Karkat (inkarkat) wrote on 2010-05-09:

I can confirm this problem; just upgraded from Karmic to Lucid, and all Japanese fonts in the desktop, menus and applications (my LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8) looked "strange", "Mincho"-like.

Fixed the problem via (there's a typo in the original description, it's "-wqy-", not "-qwy-":
sudo apt-get remove ttf-wqy-zenhei

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote on 2010-05-11:

@Ingo: I fix typo, thanks!

description:

updated

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-06-10:

Thank you for your bug report. Arne, could you look at this issue and advice on what we should be doing?

Changed in ttf-wqy-zenhei (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in ttf-wqy-zenhei (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)

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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote on 2010-06-16:

Fixed in my language-selector branch, this can be SRU'ed. For fontconfig, would need to test if the necessary changes don't cause other regressions. Using the fix in language-selector is the safe bet for now.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Fix Committed
assignee:	nobody → Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)
Changed in ttf-wqy-zenhei (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) → nobody
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-06-16

Changed in ttf-wqy-zenhei (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee:	nobody → Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-06-16:

debdiff for the sru upload Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-06-16:

#10

I've sponsor the fix from Arne which needs to be reviewed by the sru team now

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2010-06-18: Please test proposed package

#11

Accepted language-selector into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

tags:

added: verification-needed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-06-23:

#12

could somebody who had the issue test the update and confirm if it's working or not? that's required to get it approved as an official lucid update

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Fumihito YOSHIDA (hito) wrote on 2010-06-23:

#13

sorry for lazy testing, I test with proposed language-selector:0.58, karmic -> lucid upgrading looks good for me.

Its working.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-06-23

tags:	added: verification-done removed: verification-needed
Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu Lucid):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-06-25:

#14

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.5.8

---------------
language-selector (0.5.8) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

* update fontconfig/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf: change binding to
'strong' (LP: #569442)
-- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:28:34 +0800

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu Lucid):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-07-02:

#15

This bug was fixed in the package language-selector - 0.6.1

---------------
language-selector (0.6.1) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * fix dialog returning too early (issue with latest aptdaemon)
  * fix deprecation warning
  * build with include-links
  * dbus_backend/ls-dbus-backend: move dbus.mainloop.glib integration way up
    to avoid crash on startup (LP: #598619) (LP: #596603)

  [ Arne Goetje ]
  * clean up data/pkg-depends:
    - remove enigmail-locale- (LP: #588254)
    - remove obsolete kde-i18n- and koffice-i18n- entries, packages have
      been removed from archive in Lucid.
  * update fontconfig/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf: change binding to
    'strong' (LP: #569442)
  * LocaleInfo.py: check for file permissions (LP: #598802)
  * fix depreciation warnings
  * debian/control: add pyqt4-dev-tools to Build-Depends
-- Arne Goetje <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:21:08 +0800

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Nobuto Murata (nobuto) wrote on 2011-02-16:

#16

According to the reporter's comment and language-selector status, this issue was fixed in language-selector. I will mark as Invalid against fontconfig task because this bus is not fontconfig one.