GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 623113
the U+20E5 character don't overly
Last modified: 2010-07-01 15:12:44 UTC
If you look for U+0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY character you type R (or any other) and then double click on 0338 you obtain this R̸ and this is ok. If you look for U+20E5 COMBINING REVERSE SOLIDUS OVERLAY character you type R (or any other) and then double click on 20E5 you obtain this R⃥ that isn't the expected becouse it is a combining overlay character, what I expect is an "R" overlayed by a "\" like for 0338, am I wrong?
⃥I guess you mean that if you type "R" in the text entry, and then double-click on the character, which will insert it after the text in the entry, the resulting display isn't what you expected? The same should then happen in ANY gtk+ programme's text entries. Here on my computer, typing R + U+338 and R + U+20E5 show as expected, R with forward or backward slash combined.
(In reply to comment #1) >I guess you mean that if you type "R" in the text entry, and then double-click > on the character, which will insert it after the text in the entry, the > resulting display isn't what you expected? Yes exactly, with 0338 in the text entry result R̸, with 20E5 result R\, even if I copy it and paste in another text program > The same should then happen in ANY > gtk+ programme's text entries. I'm not so expert to know what is gtk+ progammes :-), could you give me an example? > > Here on my computer, typing R + U+338 and R + U+20E5 show as expected, R with > forward or backward slash combined. do you intend in gtk+ programme?? wich combination of keys you use to type directly R + U+338 and R + U+20E5 in this programme??
Assuming you're using the gnome desktop, that would be almost any programme. E.g. evolution, gedit, ... To type a unicode char, just press Control-Shift-U, release it, then type the 20E5 (or any other sequence), then return or space.
I'm using kde 4.4.4 and suse 11.2, I tryed also in gnome, using gedit and evolution, but: typing R then Control-Shift-U 0338 the (pasted) result is R̸ but gedit shows R/ typing R then Control-Shift-U 20e5 the (pasted) result is R⃥ but gedit shows R\ in the first case if I copy and paste the result is what I expect (R and slash "/" combined), but in gedit is shown wrong (R followed by a slash "/"), in the second case if I copy and paste the result isn't what I expect (R and slash "\" combined) but R followed by a square, and in gedit too is wrong (R followed by slash"\"). where I'm wronging? :-)
Looks like a font problem, then. In any case, not a gucharmap, or gtk+ or pango bug, probably...
Get a font that supports those characters. Deja Vu Sans should do.
Investigating in internet I found this: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fontsbyrange.html#u2200 which says: Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols U+20D0 – U+20FF (8400–8447) Windows: Arev Sans, Arial Unicode MS, Cambria Math, Caslon, Code2000, EversonMono, Free Sans, Free Serif, Hindsight Unicode, Monospace, Reader Sans, RomanCyrillic Std, SImPL, sixpack, STIXGeneral, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, Y.OzFontN Unix: Caslon my is U+20e5 so it should be supported I downloaded Arial Unicode MS, Caslon, and installed and rebooted. the result has been the same as previous..:-( what font do you use? any other suggestions?? Many thanks
You should try your distrution's support forums for help.