Ticket #192 (new defect/bug)

Opened 4 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

Rendering of asian fonts

Reported by: latouche Assigned to: somebody
Priority: major Milestone: version 0.1.0
Component: graphics/gtk_drawing Version: svn
Keywords: Cc:

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.

Attachments

pb_asian_fonts.png (38.0 kB) - added by latouche on 07/31/08 10:16:41.
Screenshot of Tokyo showing the rendering issue
map-AR_PL_SungtiL_GB.png (220.3 kB) - added by latouche on 08/28/08 19:34:26.
Map with font="AR PL SungtiL GB"
map-WenQuanYi_Bitmap_Song.png (184.6 kB) - added by latouche on 08/28/08 19:35:25.
Map with font="WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song"
menu-WenQuanYi_Bitmap_Song.png (25.0 kB) - added by latouche on 08/28/08 19:36:04.
Menu with font="WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song"

Change History

07/31/08 10:16:41 changed by latouche

  • attachment pb_asian_fonts.png added.

Screenshot of Tokyo showing the rendering issue

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 08/18/08 14:46:27 changed by KaZeR

do asian names render well in other gtk-based apps?

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 08/28/08 19:11:36 changed 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.

08/28/08 19:28:03 changed 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 :)

08/28/08 19:34:26 changed by latouche

  • attachment map-AR_PL_SungtiL_GB.png added.

Map with font="AR PL SungtiL GB"

08/28/08 19:35:25 changed by latouche

  • attachment map-WenQuanYi_Bitmap_Song.png added.

Map with font="WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song"

08/28/08 19:36:04 changed by latouche

  • attachment menu-WenQuanYi_Bitmap_Song.png added.

Menu with font="WenQuanYi? Bitmap Song"

09/05/08 10:28:56 changed by KaZeR

  • milestone set to version 0.1.0.