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[Bug 640845] Re: accented characters of CM fonts not available to inkscape

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From: Alex Valavanis <640845@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:52:18 -0000
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** Changed in: inkscape (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: inkscape
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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accented characters of CM fonts not available to inkscape
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/640845
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Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool: Triaged
Status in “gimp” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “inkscape” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
Status in “lyx” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: inkscape

1.) I type in Inkscape a word with accented characters (using default font), for example Slovak words "človek" or "dĺžka".

2.) Then I try to switch the font  of these words to Computer Modern, in particular cmr10, which should be the Roman shape.

3.) Only non-accented letters are switched correctly. I.e. accented letters are typed incorrectly and very ugly.

See files which I am attaching:

FILE  ComputerModern_accented.svg
produced in Inkscape.

FILE  ComputerModern_accented.pdf
also produced in the same Inkscape session by "save as PDF".

Both the SVG and corresponding PDF clearly show the problem with ugly typing of accented characters specific to Latin1 and Latin2 character sets.

FILE  HowShouldItLookLike.pdf
I created this file in LaTeX and it shows how the accented characters and words should look like.

Please note that Computer Modern fonts are the default fonts used in TeX/LaTeX systems and for many people they are most important.

Also, although I am using an English-language desktop, I have installed also any Slovak and/or Central-European fonts etc so that the problem, with most certainty, is not caused by an incomplete installation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: inkscape 0.47.0-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 16 23:17:01 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: inkscape