6414 - XUL-based UI: fail to render non-English text in menu & menuitems

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[tao]

On apr-27-99's build, apprunner failed to render non-English text
in menu & menuitems.

To reproduce it, you'll need to set up your workstation to support
non-ascii font if they are not there yet. I was told that this is a
known problem. If so, please make it a dup.

Shall you need assistance in reproducing the problem, feel free to
contact me or momoi.

Thanks

Comment 1

[tao]

Attachment: The navigator.xul, which contains JA text, used to produce the problem

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

My sample translations of Menu and Menuitems are showing

correctly as Japanese with 5/7/99 Win32 M6 build.

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Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

My sample .xul file was used on Japanese Windows and where these
Japanese characters will be displayed correctly. But this is not
true on US Windows or any other language Windows since the menus are
using Native widgets.
So this still remains a problem.ˇ

Comment 4

[tao]

Changing QA contact to myself

Comment 5

[bobj]

This also affects having international data in the menus for
  Go, Bookmarks and What's Related

Book Marks and What's Related sill display correctly in the sidebar,
but without this fix, they will display as garbage in the menus.

Comment 6

[Peter Trudelle]

reassigning to saari

Comment 7

[tao]

Hi, Saai:

Would you please consider fixing this problem by M7? L10n group will start
 localization work by M7. Please feel free to let us know if we can be of any
 help.


Thanks

Comment 8

[saari (gone)]

Yep, I'll take a look.

Comment 9

[saari (gone)]

So what should menus do when they have international text on a non-international
system? (I don't even know if MacOS for example can do this at all)

In particular is there a different OS call I should be making?

Comment 10

[tague]

see bug #5402 for a patch to fix this on the mac.

Comment 11

[saari (gone)]

This is a dup 5402 and should be fixed now...

Comment 12

[tao]

Does this mean the problem is fixedon Linux as well? How about other native
widgets such as FilePicker and others/

Comment 13

[Erik van der Poel]

No, Tague fixed it for the Mac only. This bug report is for all platforms, but
it would be easier to process if it was for a single platform. This bug report
is for menus and menu items, not the file picker and others.

Comment 14

[saari (gone)]

Menus should be ok on Windows and Mac now. GTK doesn't have international support
yet, and won't until 1.4 or so.

Comment 15

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

In that case, we should keep this bug open until Linux issue is
resolved.

Comment 16

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

erik, is there a workaround for this? Can we not display Japanese
menu/menu items using native widgets there with the assumption that
the .xul file is in UTF-8.

Comment 17

[Erik van der Poel]

GTK does not support Unicode directly. It may do so in 1.3/1.4. In the meantime,
we are first going to support the current locale (e.g. Japanese), and maybe in
the future multilingual menus if possible. Japanese does not work in Mozilla
GTK menus yet.

Comment 18

[saari (gone)]

pushing to M8 to keep on the near term radar

Comment 19

[saari (gone)]

Still an issue, but setting target M10

Comment 20

[saari (gone)]

Ok, Mac menus are as internationalized as they are going to get, and we have
XPMenus on the other platforms that should be international safe.

Marking fixed.

Comment 21

[tao]

There is a XML parser problem in M9 that will cause Mozilla to crash
in loading UTF-8 encoded DTD files. Therefore, I won't be able to verify
this fix until that bug is fixed.

Comment 22

[tao]

Verified on Linux and NT builds. Reassign QA contact to Bom-Sheek to verify it
on Mac.

Comment 23

[blee]

Verified fixed in 1999-08-30-09-M10 Mac bld.