206237 - file select box uses chinese fonts

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[fritz.heinrichmeyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030519
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030519

when compiled with gcc33 and g++33 (released recently) mozilla file dialog comes
up with chinese fonts, not useable for me. Recompiling with 3.2 under freebsd 5.0 
helps.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.compile mozilla (1.3.1 or 1.4b with gcc33 under FreeBSD current)
2. open File -> Open File Dialog
3. read chinese

Actual Results:  
chinese file listings

Expected Results:  
western font file listing

Comment 1

[Eugene Sandulenko]

I second this bug.

It is Chinese just by coincidence because it converts each character code XX to
XX00, i.e. "ab" (0x65 0x66) becomes 0x6500 0x6600 which happened to be in
Chinese part of Unicode.

It happens because LANG env variable is not set.

Solution to this is to set
  LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1

Comment 2

[fritz.heinrichmeyer]

in my environment i have

LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-15

so this should not be an issue.

The strange thing is that mozilla behaves as i like it when i recompile it with
gcc32 (default in FreeBSD-CURRENT) (this fact was an essential part of my bug
report). Also the download manager was infected by chinese glyphs(?). 

Mozilla seems to default to unicode when compiled with gcc33 in contrast a gcc22
compiled binary? Maybe a gcc33 issue?

Comment 3

[fritz.heinrichmeyer]

same effect with mozilla-firebird:

compiled with gcc32: can read filenames in File->Open box

compiled with gcc33: characters are expanded to 16 bit and then interpreted as
chinese chars.

Comment 4

[Marco Perez [:mpk]]

Worksforme on FreeBSD 5.3 (which comes with gcc 3.4 ).
Fritz, are you still experiencing the same problems?

Comment 5

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