167595 - in Java applets text labels on controls are rendered incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Andrew Novikov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; uk-UA; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

In GalaChat Java applet at http://chat.gala.net/ text labels on buttons and
other controls rendered incorrectly and are not readable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
NOTE: you should have cyryllic support and fonts installed correctly.
1. Go to http://chat.gala.net/
2. Enter username 'Mozilla' and password 'www.mozilla.org' (no quotes) or any
other username and password. 
3. Select Java version by clicking appropriate radiobutton (HTML chat is
selected by default).
4. Submit form.

Actual Results:  
In window bottom there are some buttons to send messages, ignore users, request
help etc. Text labels on buttons, drop-down lists etc are written in russian. In
all versions of Netscape and Mozilla those labels are unreadable.

Expected Results:  
Render text labels so that I could read it.

Comment 1

[Andrew Novikov]

Attachment: That's how controls are displayed in Mozilla

Comment 2

[Andrew Novikov]

Attachment: That's how controls should be displayed (screenshot from IE6 on WinXP)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

which JRE ?

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

Andrew Novikov:
Which OS language of your WinXP?
Could you please try to switch your WinXP locale to russian to see if they would
be displayed OK?

It might be related with bug 114078.

Comment 5

[Andrew Novikov]

I'm using JRE 1.3.1, OS: WindowsXP Corporate Edition English, locale is
already set to russian.

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

I failed to login...confirm by reporter's screen shot (under russian locale WinXP).

Comment 7

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** Bug 169302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Peter Bartecki]

I can see the same problem on Linux with BlackDown Java 1.4.1b

 There's simpler test case at MozillaPL.org site - it tests wheather you can
enter and display Polish characters. 

There's no problem with Windows and Polish locale. 
Even if you have Polish locale there are no Polish characters on Component Label
(when you enter the page with Linux it displays ??? instead of correct letters)
and you can enter and display them on TextField Component (below).

The test  case:
http://mozillapl.org/mozilla/czat/applet-test.html

We will try to improve it (add source, tell me what else is needed in a second)

Comment 9

[Yuying Long]

cc [e-mail]

Comment 10

[Andrew Novikov]

The problem doesn't appear after installing Windows XP Service Pack 1 and
upgrading JRE to 1.4.0. Perhaps JRE 1.3 is the source of problem. I have no way
to test it on JRE 1.4 without WinXP SP1.

Comment 11

[Yuying Long]

Mark as verified per comment above.

Comment 12

[Peter Bartecki]

It still doesn't work,.. This problem affects all OS versions but:

 on Windows if your locale matches the one in the applet you're fine, if they
doesn't (say I with Polish locale will go to this Ukrainian test page) some
components (label) will be displayed incorectly characters replaced with ???.

on Linux the problem with label component doesn't really depend on your locale.
Doesn't matter if they match or they don't with the charset of the label in
applet - you will always get international characters replaced with ??? Whe have
tried to tweak fontproperties or fontproperties.pl file (to include proper
iso-8859-2 character set) but in almost every case this change coused Mozilla to
crash (or wasn't giving any effects at all - tested on few different
PC;s/distributions)

Summary of all tests can be found here:
http://mozillapl.org/mozilla/czat/applet-test.html
Please let me know if it's clear enough.

The OS version field has to be changed to All and the bug should be open again
unless you want me to file another bug.

Adding myself and our Java coordinator to the CC.

Comment 13

[Peter Bartecki]

Adding Gabriel to CC list.

Comment 14

[Yuying Long]

There is a bug talking about applet display garbled in different locale:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114078
Seems like it's the same windows problem in comment #12.

And for linux, I don't know if it's related with the available fonts in system.

I'm re-open this bug per comment #12.

Comment 15

[Frank Tang]

I think both roy and me are off mozilla for more than 2 years. If these bugs are
still here now, I think the real stauts is 'won't fix'. If you want to reopen
it, please find a new owner for it first. 

Comment 16

[Travis Chase]

Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam

Comment 17

[Travis Chase]

Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all
the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him

Comment 18

[Travis Chase]

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

Comment 19

[Kyle Machulis [:qdot] [:kmachulis] (INACTIVE)]

The HTML <applet> element and related java functionality was removed from Gecko in Bug 1279218. Marking related bugs as invalid.