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[Seán Ó Séaghdha <385335@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The lack of configurability in gnome-font-viewer makes it pretty useless
for languages using non-English Latin characters. How can you tell if a
font even supports your language is the font viewer won’t display the
right characters? This isn’t trivial; it goes to the very point of the
program.

It should have both a default string availabe to translators and allow
users to define their own string.

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Title:
  gnome-font-viewer default text not visible in all fonts

Status in Gnome Font Viewer:
  New
Status in gnome-font-viewer package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

  At this moment, gnome-font-viewer uses "The quick brown fox jumps over
  the lazy dog" as the sample text for all fonts. This however is an
  awful implementation for CJK-oriented fonts, because for these fonts,
  what the user would like to see are the Chinese characters/Japanese
  kanas/Korean hanguls part of the content, not Roman alphabets. In some
  CJK fonts that have their contents exclusively on Chinese
  characters/Japanese kanas/Korean hanguls, "The quick brown fox jumps
  over the lazy dog" sample text simply appears as a bunch of black
  blocks (see attached picture). This is nowhere helpful for the user to
  preview the font's content.

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