21209 - Japanese Hiragana does not display when certain Big5 fonts are installed

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Observed with 12/8/99 Linux build **

I have some Big5 fonts installed on my Linux box (mugen).
Recently Erik has made it possible to use Big5 fonts with
"..et-0" suffix.

For example the following font is on my Linux box.

-eten-taipei-medium-r-normal--16-150-75-75-c-160-big5.et-0

The problem is that I can't see Japanese Hiragana any more
in Browser, Composer, and Messenger. Apparently, we use this
font ahead of a Japanese font.

When the font pref is enabled for Unix, this problem can be
avoided. But in any case, we need to find a solution for M12.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

We should use the CP950 conversion instead of the current one. The current one
have HIRAGANA defined but it is not common in any BIG5 font.

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

I have use the microsoft CP950.TXT to build our Big5 conversion table in my
local tree to fix this problem. Need to wait till tree open to check in.

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

change the big5.uf and big5.ut to use the microsoft CP950.TXT conversion table
instead of the unpopluar Taligent table.

Comment 4

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

teruko, if you want me to verify this, I'll be appy to do it.
Just re-assign the task to me.

Comment 5

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Checked with 1/3/99 Linux build **

I re-installed my Taipei fonts (16 & 24 pts).
Then I compared the above build with the M12 release build.
The new build can display all Kana characters even with these
Big 5 fonts. On the other hand, the M12 build cannot.
This proves that the problem has been resolved in M13 builds
later than 12/21/99.

Marking the fix verified.