[Bug 2006756] Update Released
Chris Halse Rogers
2006756 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Mar 1 06:01:18 UTC 2023
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Title:
composite emoji shows extra vertical color lines
Status in pango1.0 package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in pango1.0 source package in Jammy:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Impact
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Composite emoji (such as 🫱🏾 [Rightwards Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone]) are not rendered correctly. By "composite emoji", I mean emoji that are made up of multiple Unicode characters joined by "ZWJ". Composite emoji are used for skin tones, gender, flags, and a few other emoji.
The incorrect rendering can be seen in Ubuntu 22.04's default text
editor, gedit, as extra vertical red and black lines after the
character. Screenshot attached.
Test Case
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Install the update
Close Text Editor if it is open
Open Text Editor
Paste this character in Text Editor:
🫱🏾
It should display correctly without any extra vertical lines after it.
Other Info
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This was originally noticed while verifying https://launchpad.net/bugs/1990677
What Could Go Wrong
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This is a one line fix cherry-picked from pango 1.50.8 (plus 30+ lines for a test case).
pango is a text rendering library in GTK. GTK is used for most of the
apps in the default install for Ubuntu Desktop and several other
Ubuntu desktop flavors. pango is also used by mutter which is a key
component of GNOME Shell which provides the basic desktop environment
for default Ubuntu. A critical enough bug in pango could make the
desktop and apps unusuable because text wouldn't be readable. This is
mitigated through build tests and autopkgtests.
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