36757 - Font set problem for Korean chars in pulldown of Insert Characters dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Teruko Kobayashi]

The Korean characters in pulldown menu of Insert Characters dialog are displayed
as "?".

Steps of reproduce
1. Open Composer
2. Select menu Insert|Characters

Under Korean Hangul section , the Korean characters in the pulldown menu are
displayed as "?".  After you select one of the Korean character, the character
is displayed correctly under Insert section.

Tested 2000042109 Win32, 2000042110 Mac and 2000042109 Linux build.

Comment 1

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to teruko.

Comment 2

[Charles Manske]

I have no idea how to fix this. Help, Frank!
Do we have to set a charset for the dialog?

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

no. this is a rendering issue. I can see it nicely on my window since I have 
install the office2000 font. blee try it and see ? in his English window but 
without problem on his Korean window (both have Korean font installed). I guess 
the problem is the code use the Unicode Jamo block and some of the korean font 
do not have it. I think this is a rendering issue.

Comment 4

[Erik van der Poel]

How can this bug be fixed? If there are no fonts with those glyphs on the
system, then we can't draw those glyphs, right?

Comment 5

[blee]

Forgot to add this comment: 
This works fine in Win NT KO, but not in non-KO Windows with a KO font (Gulim) as well as Mac and Linux.

Comment 6

[Charles Manske]

Given that last bit of info, is showing foreign font sets useful? Is there
a way to detect what language version is being used and include those 
tabpanels only if appropriate version is installed?

Comment 7

[Erik van der Poel]

How about changing those characters to other characters for which we do have
glyphs in standard Korean fonts? I.e. U+11XX -> U+31XX.

Comment 8

[Tobias Burnus]

How come that I only see these entries in the "Insert Character":
Accent upper/lowercase, other upper/lowercase, common symbols?
(2000-08-17-13)

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

Mark it as futre

Comment 10

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 11

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Charles or Beth, I do not see Korean characters in pulldown anymore.  Is this 
correct?  If so, this bug is no longer valid.

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

erik resign. reassign all his bug to ftang for now.

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

mark all future new as assigned after move from erik to ftang

Comment 14

[rubydoo123]

removing myself from the cc list

Comment 15

[Jungshik Shin]

As mentioned in comment #8, I don't see any Korean letters in Insert-Characters.
When did this change happen? If that's the correct behavior (listing only
accented, common symbols, etc), this bug is invalid. 

Comment 16

[Isaac Hwak Han]

I can back up comment 11 and comment 15.

It may be too late to make any resolution, but I will close this bug because the
Korean character stuffs were deliberately removed from "Insert Character" dialog
(both frontend and backend) circa August 2000. Relevant CVS windows are:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=EditorInsertChars.dtd&branch=&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/editor/ui/dialogs/locale/en-US&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=1.2&rev2=1.3
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=EdInsertChars.js&branch=&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/editor/ui/dialogs/content&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=1.2&rev2=1.3

--> WONTFIX for the bug was valid when it was filed.