Bug#1084794: xterm: The Greek pi letter U+03C0 is not rendered correctly in Noto Mono
On 2024-10-08 14:13:09 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The U+03C0 GREEK SMALL LETTER PI character (π) is not rendered
> correctly when the Noto Mono font is used. Note that this is
> specific to xterm. There is no such issue with GNOME Terminal
> and Firefox with the same font.
>
> To reproduce, for instance:
>
> xterm -fa "Noto Mono-14"
FYI, about the font:
qaa:~> ftdump -c /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto/NotoMono-Regular.ttf
There is 1 face in NotoMono-Regular.ttf.
----- Face number: 0 -----
font name entries
family: Noto Mono
style: Regular
postscript: NotoMono
created: 2007-01-08
modified: 2015-12-16
revision: 1.00
glyph count: 897
simple: 454
composite: 426
empty: 17
font type entries
FreeType driver: truetype
sfnt wrapped: yes
type: scalable
direction: horizontal
fixed width: yes
glyph names: no
EM size: 2048
global BBox: (-312,-555):(1315,2163)
ascender: 1900
descender: -500
height: 2400
max_advance_width: 1229
max_advance_height: 2400
underline_position: -205
underline_thickness: 102
charmaps (1)
* 0: unic, platform 3, encoding 1, format 4, language 0
0000,000d,0020-007e,00a0-017f,0192,01a0,01a1,01af,01b0,01f0,01fa-01ff,0218-021b,02bc,02c6,02c7,02c9,02d8-02dd,02f3,0300,0301,0303,0309,030f,0323,0384-038a,038c,038e-03a1,03a3-03ce,03d1,03d2,03d6,0400-0486,0488-0513,1e00,1e01,1e3e,1e3f,1e80-1e85,1ea0-1ef9,1f4d,2000-200b,2013-2015,2017-201e,2020-2022,2026,2030,2032,2033,2039,203a,203c,2044,207f,20a3,20a4,20a7,20ab,20ac,2105,2113,2116,2122,2126,212e,215b-215e,2202,2206,220f,2211,2212,221a,221e,222b,2248,2260,2264,2265,25ca,fb01-fb04,feff,fffc,fffd
U+03C0 is there, so this is not due to some font substitution.
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