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From: Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>
To: Linux console tools development discussion <kbd@lists.altlinux.org>
Cc: mfabian@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [kbd] eurlatgr uses different glyph for ' (single quote) than latarcyrheb-sun16
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 17:45:23 +0100
Message-ID: <20150805164523.GB9854@milliways> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438726577.3435.7.camel@redhat.com>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:16:17PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, folks. Per 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewDefaultConsoleFont -
> "eurlatgr is based on latarcyrheb-sun16 so the typeface does not
> change" - it sounds like eurlatgr is intended to have the same
> appearance as latarcyrheb-sun16 for characters they share in common,
> but in fact there seems to be at least one noticeable difference: the
> single quote character ('). In eurlatgr it's a straight, vertical line;
> in latarcyrheb-sun16 (and the qemu firmware font, for whatever that's
> worth...) it's a curl, like a comma.
> 
> It's easy to see this: just type a ' in a console and flip between
> eurlatgr and latarcyrheb-sun16 .
> 
> I noticed this because we've been implementing some Fedora tests using
> openQA, SUSE's screenshot-match-based automated test framework, and one
> of the tests we use matches against a string with a ' in it on a
> console. For $BORING_REASONS the font used wound up being eurlatgr in
> some tests I was running and the qemu console font in others, so the
> match failed sometimes.
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
> http://www.happyassassin.net
> 
For fedora testing, this is undoubtedly an issue.  But for the kbd
list I cannot see that this has any relevance - a font designer is
free to change any, or all, the glyphs.  My LatGrkCyr-12x22 is based
on iso1-12x22, derived from the kernel's sun12x22, but most of the
glyphs are altered (in that case I needed more rows for diacriticals
so that I could recognise them).

Good luck with fixing your test infrastructure.

ĸen
-- 
This one goes up to eleven: but only on a clear day, with the wind in
the right direction.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-05 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04 22:16 Adam Williamson
2015-08-05 16:45 ` Ken Moffat [this message]
2015-08-11  6:53   ` Marko Myllynen

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