Re: the inverted question mark on the fedoraproject start page is backwards and it looks weird

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 05/30/2014 01:54 AM, Robert Mayr wrote:


Il 30/mag/2014 02:47 "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
>
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:51:43AM -0400, David Shea wrote:
> > I guess that's a font issue? This is with the firefox and fonts that
> > come with Fedora, though, so it's at least a Fedora issue if not
> > exactly a web issue.
> > Screenshot of what I'm talking about:
> > http://dshea.fedorapeople.org/%C2%BF.jpg   the first item in the
> > Planet Fedora column.
>
> I'm not quite sure what's going on there. The font is Cantarell, and on my
> system, the inverted question mark in Cantarell looks just fine (although
> placed kind of weirdly low, with the bottom of the curve sitting on the
> beardline).
>
> What version of Fedora do you have, and what version of the font is
> installed? (`rpm -q abattis-cantarell-fonts`)
>
> --
> Matthew Miller    --   Fedora Project    --    <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>                                   "Tepid change for the somewhat better!"

This issue should not depend on the font, it's an encoding issue. Probably the blog used a special character in the title of the post which couldn't be displayed properly. In those cases an inverted question mark is shown.
Maybe I can have a look later on the specific post to see if that is really the problem, because actually the post is not shown anymore on start.fpo.


It was still in my cached copy, so I can confirm that the character it's trying to display is just a normal inverted question mark (U+00BF).

dshea@dshea-laptop:~$ rpm -q abattis-cantarell-fonts
abattis-cantarell-fonts-0.0.15-1.fc20.noarch

Poking at it in the element inspector, firefox says "Cantarell Regular remote" for the font, using http://start.fedoraproject.org/static/css/fonts/Cantarell-Regular-webfont.ttf as the remote URL. If fontmatrix can be trusted (I don't really know what a good way to view arbitrary characters in a font file is), this particular font renders an inverted question mark as open on the left, while the Cantarell Regular I have on my system renders it as open on the right.
-- 
websites mailing list
websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites

[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Users]     [Linux ARM]     [ARM Kernel]     [Older Fedora Users]     [Fedora Advisory Board]     [Fedora Security]     [Fedora Devel Java]     [Fedora Desktop]     [ATA RAID]     [Fedora Marketing]     [Fedora Mentors]     [Fedora Package Announce]     [Fedora Package Review]     [Fedora Music]     [Fedora Packaging]     [Centos]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Coolkey]     [Yum Users]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Art]     [Fedora Docs]     [Asterisk PBX]

  Powered by Linux