Bug 509828 - Font preview cannot show characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) correctly
Summary: Font preview cannot show characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: systemsettings
Classification: Applications
Component: kcm_fontinst (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.5
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-09-23 14:33 UTC by Huanyu Liu
Modified: 2025-10-09 17:43 UTC (History)
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Description Huanyu Liu 2025-09-23 14:33:01 UTC 
SUMMARY
Font preview cannot show characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) correctly.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Take "二𫫇英" (U+4E8C U+2BAC7 U+82F1, meaning "dioxin" in Chinese) as an example. Make sure you have installed a font that supports the second character "𫫇" (U+2BAC7), such as Noto Sans/Serif [CJK] SC or Unifont.
1. Launch System Settings
2. Go to Text & Fonts → Font Management, and select a font mentioned above
3. Right click on the font preview, and select "Change Preview Text..."
4. Paste the text "二𫫇英" and press "OK"

OBSERVED RESULT
The preview becomes "二??英", where "?" indicates the notdef glyph.


EXPECTED RESULT
The text "二𫫇英" should be previewed correctly.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.8-arch2-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Since a single character becomes two notdef glyphs, I suspect it is a problem related to UTF-16 handling failure.
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-10-09 17:43:00 UTC 
I can reproduce this on git-master using the Noto Sans CJK font