Opened 3 years ago

Closed 3 years ago

#17423 closed bug (no change required)

Possible issue with font management

Reported by: LianBg Owned by: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: - General Version: R1/beta3
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

Hey there,

On my system (Haiku on metal; Acer Aspire 7738G laptop), I have installed a logographic font that uses ligatures to render a script for the Toki Pona language. The font's name is Linja Pona and can be found here: https://github.com/janSame/linja-pona/

The font works fine, however on several occasions with various programs, I have encountered issues where these programs absurdly use that logographic font in place of a proper font. Because this happened in various different programs with no connection to each other but running on Haiku, I am inclined to believe it has less to do with individual bad coding of these projects but is rather representative of an OS level issue; maybe the OS incorrectly tags that font as a good choice for sans serif or serif applications.

I have not set that font as any kind of system font, in case you are wondering.

Here are links to two of the tickets I have opened on the respective programs' issue trackers: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/issues/6426 https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser/issues/1697

Change History (1)

comment:1 by diver, 3 years ago

Resolution: no change required
Status: newclosed

This is an issue in Qt5 port, not Haiku.

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