5099 - need to add LANG to nsFont

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[Erik van der Poel]

Unicode unifies the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) range. HTML has introduced
the LANG attribute. The spec says that this is to be used for CJK
disambiguation, among other things. So if the CSS resolves to a generic font
like "serif", then we need to select the right font (C, J or K) depending on
the language.

The LANG attribute can be specified for individual elements, and is inherited
from parent elements. If the HTML document does not have any LANG attributes,
the HTTP headers should be examined for the Content-Language header. If that is
missing too, the LANG should be NULL in nsFont. In that case, we can use the
charset of the document as a fallback (heuristic). A separate bug report will
be filed for the charset.

Since LANG is an ASCII string, the nsFont field can be either char* or nsString.
If it is simpler to use nsString, please do so.

Comment 1

[bobj]

Erik is dependent upon this before M7.

Comment 2

[Peter Linss]

Adding lang to nsFont is not the right location, the style system re-uses
nsFont for different content nodes which may be in dofferent languages.

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Verified WONTFIX

Comment 4

[bobj]

See peterl's 08/06/99 16:01 comment in bug 6451.