Santali font in the file in being displayed as unrecognised characters
File: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand_pump-sat.svg
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T216892 Santali font shown as square boxes in thumbnail version of a specific SVG file | |||
| Resolved | hnowlan | T216815 Upgrade Thumbor to Buster | |||
| Invalid | None | T212941 Investigate systemd hardening to replace Firejail for Thumbor | |||
| Resolved | fgiunchedi | T212946 Stream Thumbor logs to logstash | |||
| Resolved | • Gilles | T187765 Replace the Nginx fronting Thumbor with Haproxy | |||
| Resolved | fgiunchedi | T204266 Backport prometheus haproxy exporter for Jessie | |||
| Resolved | jijiki | T220499 Export useful metrics from haproxy logs for Thumbor | |||
| Resolved | jijiki | T221562 Build Thumbor packages for buster |
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While translating an image in inkspace app the words used were clearly visible but after uploading the picture in commons the words are not recognisable ,it appears as above. Whereas in inkspace the picture was as below
. As my OS is Window 10, i don't had ever such issues in writing article.
While translating an image in inkspace app the words used were clearly visible but after uploading the picture in commons the words are not recognisable ,it appears as above. Whereas in inkspace the picture was as below
Regards
Ashwani
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For future reference, please provide 1) steps to reproduce including links; 2) expected outcome; 3) actual outcome, when reporting problems - thanks!
The SVG file itself at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Hand_pump-sat.svg is shown correctly for me in Firefox 65.
The thumbnail preview at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Hand_pump-sat.svg/528px-Hand_pump-sat.svg.png has font issues.
Opening the SVG file locally in Inkscape, I get the message Font 'Verdana' substituted with 'DejaVu Sans'.
@ASHWANI: Does the problem in the thumbnail images also happen when you use a free and supported font instead of "Verdana"?
See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:SVG#Font_substitution_and_fallback_fonts and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SVG_fonts
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yes I tried with other free supported font like " Noto Sans Ol Chiki" font and "Gurugomke" fonts but both didn't work and gave square boxes.
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@ASHWANI: Where can someone else see that "both fonts didn't work"?
The "File history" at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand_pump-sat.svg says that the last version is from Feb23...
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Similary in the case of Noto sans Ol Chiki font also
But as I uploaded both of these two images today morning in common it worked, It is clearly visible.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assam-districts-2001-sat.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestBengalDistricts_numbered-sat.svg
hii @Aklapper
Earlier I had tried one image of which i had kept three screen shot worked on inkspace by GuruGomke font. On the right hand side you can see the preview of the text which is showing square boxes. Therefore I had presumed it will not work.
Similary in the case of Noto sans Ol Chiki font also
But as I uploaded both of these two images today morning in common it worked, It is clearly visible.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assam-districts-2001-sat.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WestBengalDistricts_numbered-sat.svg
Thanks for support
Regards
Ashwani
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A font for Santali is supposed to be installed on the server where the SVG is rendered. @ASHWANI gave several examples of fonts that would work for Santali.
Here are several similar tasks:
- T123223: Install Noto CJK (Source Han Sans) font family for SVG rendering
- T40299: Installation of Computer Modern Unicode font family for SVG rendering
- T25912: Install font Linux Libertine
The solution for this task about Santali is similar to the solution for these tasks.
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@jijiki: Are you sure this is related to librsvg code itself and not to the fonts installed on Wikimedia servers? I don't see (yet) how upgrading librsvg would fix this.
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@Aklapper my bad, I meant to add it under upgrade to buster, as something we should consider/test when we upgrade again.