tags 428747 + patch thanks On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:54:02AM +0200, Denis Jacquerye wrote: > >Apparently someone has decided a password dialog should no longer print > >simple asterisks, but to use unicode character 25CF (a black round > >bullet) instead. > > > >Please add this character for the DejaVuSans font. It should not be needed > >to add it to any other fonts. > > U+25CF has been in DejaVu Sans since version 2.2. It is also in DejaVu > Serif and DejaVu Sans Mono. The problem is that the glyph belongs to a range which has been stripped away of the udeb; the following patch should fix the problem. I can prepare an updated package ASAP if needed. regards, Davide Index: scripts/generate-udeb.sh =================================================================== --- scripts/generate-udeb.sh (revision 310) +++ scripts/generate-udeb.sh (working copy) @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u2150:u218f" # Number Forms STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u2190:u21ff" # Arrows STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u2200:u24FF" # Mathematical, Techical, Control, OCR -STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u2580:u25FF" # Block elements, Geometric Shapes STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u2600:u26FF" # Miscellaneous Symbols STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u2700:u27EF" # Dingbats, Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A STRIP_RANGES="$STRIP_RANGES u27F0:u27FF" # Supplemental Arrows-A zino@slurpy:~/dejavu/alioth/ttf-dejavu/trunk/debian$
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