Bug#655114: iceweasel should recommend font packages providing fonts with non-western characters

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sun Jan 8 17:03:32 UTC 2012


Package: iceweasel
Version: 9.0.1-1
Severity: minor

By default, font rendering can be ugly or even incorrect (e.g. when
underline is used) on pages with a non-western language (Japanese,
Korean...) or encoding, even when this concerns ASCII characters
(sometimes such pages are incorrect, but not always, in particular
when mixed languages are used and/or when non-western text, like
people's names, is written with western characters). In any case,
Iceweasel should be able to render such text correctly.

One solution can be smarter font selection; this is bug 351259.
Another solution is to have the needed fonts installed (the subject
of this bug report). So, Iceweasel should recommend a complete
Unicode font.

Note: I had ttf-dejavu already installed, but this is not sufficient
(or there is a bug in fontconfig, as it was not selected).

-- Package-specific info:

-- Extensions information
Name: -Global Styles- userstylefalse

-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils         4.1
ii  fontconfig          2.8.0-3
ii  libc6               2.13-24
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.30.2-4
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.8-2
ii  libnspr4-0d         4.8.9-1
ii  libstdc++6          4.6.2-11
ii  procps              1:3.3.0-1
ii  xulrunner-9.0       9.0.1-1

iceweasel recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                        1.10+dfsg~alpha2-1
ii  mathematica-fonts [ttf-mathematica4.1]  13
ii  mozplugger                              <none>
ii  ttf-lyx                                 2.0.2-1
ii  xfonts-mathml                           4

Versions of packages xulrunner-9.0 depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.24.1-4
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.2.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.6-1
ii  libc6                     2.13-24
ii  libcairo2                 1.10.2-6.2
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.4.16-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.16-stable-1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.8.0-3
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.8-1
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.6.2-11
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.24.0-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.30.2-4
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.8-2
ii  libhunspell-1.3-0         1.3.2-4
ii  libjpeg8                  8c-2
ii  libmozjs9d                9.0.1-1
ii  libnotify4                0.7.4-1
ii  libnspr4-0d               4.8.9-1
ii  libnss3-1d                3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.29.4-2
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.24.0-1
ii  libreadline6              6.2-8
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.9-3
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.6.2-11
ii  libvpx0                   0.9.7.p1-2
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.0-3
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.6-2
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.1-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3

Versions of packages xulrunner-9.0 suggests:
ii  libcanberra0      0.28-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.98-1
ii  libgnomeui-0      2.24.5-2

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