224096 - after upgrading mozilla from 1.2 to 1.5 (and Firebird 0.7) all of the first letters in words on yahoo were corrupted.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[scott didriksen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I upgraded from Mozilla 1.2 to 1.5 and now the first letter of every word is
corrupted when I go to most sites (yahoo the main one). I installed Firebird 0.7
and it has the same problem. I upgraded another system and it does not have this
problem. I am using Red Hat 9.0 on both systems. I tried different fonts and
sizes with no success.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. downloaded 1.5 and installed it on Red Hat 9.0
2. I started and went to http://www.yahoo.com
3. Display came up corrupted.

Actual Results:  
First letter in every word is a strange character (S is now a .)

Expected Results:  
Display words correctly.

Used the default theme in all cases.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

A screenshot would be nice...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Are you using an xft build?  See about:buildconfig

Comment 3

[scott didriksen]

Attachment: Screen shot of Yahoo web page with Firebird 0.7

Looks exactly the same with Mozilla 1.5.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

Seems like 0x20 (Space) is subtracted from the value of the first char,
so Y 0x59 gets 9 0x39, S 0x53 gets 3 0x33, A 0x41 gets ! 0x21, 
seems to be like a touper(), or was it _toupper(), which should be used only on
lowercase chars, applied to uppercase chars.
Do you use extensions on both browsers?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hmm.. yeah, all the lowercase chars on that page have been uppercased.  I just
tested, and text-transform:uppercase does NOT have this bug in Mozilla.  So
something else is doing the uppercasing...

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

For ASCII text (like here) we use the OS toupper() function to implement the
text-transform, which would point to this being a libc bug on the affected
system.  But we were doing that in 1.2 as well...  drepper, do you have any
ideas what's up here?

Comment 7

[Ulrich Drepper]

If the code is correct there are only two possibilities: compile problem or
corruption of the locale data.  The latter would show up also in other programs
if the same locale is used.

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I'd rather avoid using locale-sensitive functions, though, since we want to
treat web content the same way everywhere.  (I'm surprised toupper doesn't
behave differently in Turkish locale, although it seems not to.)

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 10

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Anyone still seeing this on a recent build? (SeaMonkey 1.1.9 or 2.0a1pre, Firefox 2.0.0.14 or 3.x) If you do, please paste your useragent string (found after "Build ID" on the page obtained by typing "about:" without the quotes in the URL bar then hitting Enter)

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm