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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a terminal, enter:

    pango-view --font="Ubuntu Mono 48" --markup --text='<span
fallback="false">ABC&#13;A☺C&#13;A▷C</span>'

This demonstrates that:
- the ☺ character in Ubuntu Mono is the correct width
- the ▷ character is not present in Ubuntu Mono at all.

The lists of fonts that "have the problem, and ... do not" seem to be
lists of fonts that contain those two characters or not.

So the bug here probably is not with any individual font; it is that
monospace fonts fall back to proportional fonts for missing characters,
instead of falling back to another monospace font with the desired
glyph.

** Changed in: ubuntu-font-family
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- Some characters too wide with default fixed-with font
+ [nc] Some characters too wide with default fixed-with font

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Title:
  [nc] Some characters too wide with default fixed-with font

Status in Ubuntu Font Family:
  Incomplete
Status in fonts-tlwg package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ttf-droid package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-font-family-sources package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xfonts-terminus package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The character "▷" (Unicode code point U+25B7, "white right-pointing
  triangle") takes up more space than other characters.  It extends
  outside of its bounding box such that it overlaps with the character
  immediately to its right.

  Please see the attached screen shot for an example of the triangle
  overlapping with the character 'M'.

  This triangle character is not the only one that is drawn too wide.
  U+25B6 is (somewhat trivially) another example. An even better example
  is the drachma sign, U+20AF, which overlaps the character that follows
  entirely.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-terminal 3.0.1-0ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Feb 15 10:05:54 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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