Opened 13 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#192 closed defect/bug (fixed)
Rendering of asian fonts
| Reported by: | latouche | Owned by: | somebody |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | version 0.2.0 |
| Component: | graphics/gtk_drawing | Version: | git master |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
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Description
Asian fonts are not rendered on the map but they are shown in popup menus (using an OSM map) It's the case for Chinese and Japonese names. I suppose it would be the same for Korean but I didn't find any name in Korean.
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Change History (11)
Changed 13 years ago by latouche
comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 13 years ago by KaZeR
do asian names render well in other gtk-based apps?
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 13 years ago by anonymous
Replying to KaZeR:
do asian names render well in other gtk-based apps?
Yes, no problem with that. I have all my fonts well configured to display asian text.
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by latouche
I've tested to specify a font for the layout. I tested different asian fonts. Most of the fonts are not really usable by default with Linux. They can be read but the rendering is not great... So it is the same for Navit. The best font I know is WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song and when used with navit, the result is really ugly ... - it is the same for others (文鼎PL細上海宋Uni for exemple)
My system is using fontconfig with select the "best" font to use, but I suppose that the map and gui_internal don't rely on fontconfig. For my terminal (urxvt), I use "xft:terminus,xft:WenQuanYi Bitmap Song" to have both european and asian fonts well rendered. Hope it will give ideas to navit dev :)
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by KaZeR
- Milestone set to version 0.1.0
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 12 years ago by kazer
Is this issue still valid? We have now a bunch of asian translations and never heard of this anymore.
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 12 years ago by latouche
Replying to kazer:
Is this issue still valid? We have now a bunch of asian translations and never heard of this anymore.
If I set an asian font (文泉驛等寬正黑 for example), it is now readable. So we can say that it works even if using the system fonts via fontconfig (for the map layer and gui=internal) could be better
comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by kazer
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
Ok, so i'll close the ticket for now.
Screenshot of Tokyo showing the rendering issue