GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 767604
Some characters are overlayed by others (Ü,ü,ô,õ,…)
Last modified: 2016-06-20 08:15:32 UTC
Created attachment 329686 [details] example, n overlays ü in münchen (Munique) Some characters seem to be interpreted by some programs (e.g. Firefox) as if there width was 0 and therefore the next characters overlay them (see attachment where the n overlays the ü in the word münchen = Munique). This effects various letters like e.g. 'ü', which is important in German. On https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Cantarell you can see all effected letters, as they are not centered in there cell.
I think you're seeing an old bug, please test with the newest release.
I can recreate this bug in Firefox 47 under Gnome Shell 3.18 (Ubuntu 16.04).
Please test with the newest cantarell release.
Could you point out where to get (and how to install) the newest release so that I can test it?
Resolving as NOTGNOME since you’re using a very old copy hosted at Google Fonts, which is not controlled by us. The latest version of Cantarell can be found here: https://download.gnome.org/sources/cantarell-fonts/0.0/cantarell-fonts-0.0.24.tar.xz For instructions of installation, please use your favorite search engine. Linux distributions usually package the latest version, so you should be able to install a package from your distro’s archive, without needing to manually copy random font files found in websites. For instance, in Ubuntu you just need the “fonts-cantarell” package.
I have installed the latest version from the gnome link and the issue remains. This is definitely GNOME related. I have never installed a font from Google Fonts. I just gave you the link, because on that site it is recognizable which letters are effected.
I was wrong. The issue is fixed in the latest version, which is not yet available in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04. I had to remove the fonts-cantarell package first to be able to install and use the latest version.