102949 - M in Times New Roman 36pt Bold Italic will not render on windows9x

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect)

Description

[timeless]

Reproducable: All applications running on windows98 (and 95, probably ME) [XP
unknown]. Including: Netscape3, Explorer [Desktop Icons], Notepad, Word2000,
Mozilla [2001100303]

Comment 1

[timeless]

Attachment: iMi [bold italic 36pt Times New Roman w98]

Comment 2

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

What is this bug about?. Is it that all applications other than Mozilla can
render bold italic 36pt on WIN9x?  Or is it than no application can render 36pt
on WIN9x?.  If its the latter this bug is INVALID.

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Regardless of the M, this testcase isn't working.

It's not displaying the text in Times New Roman, althought it is 36 pt.

Try changing your default fonts for western. Notice that the text on the screen 
changes even though this is supposed to always be Times New Roman.

Comment 4

[rbs]

"font-face:Times New Roman" should be "font-family:..."
font-face therefore has no effect any font other than Times can possibly be
picked as reported by mkaply.

Either way, WFM on W2K, I see 'M'.

Timeless, on your screenshot, none of the applications are displaying 'M'. Care
to clarify the catch?

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Assuming all applications on WIN95 have this problem, marking WONT fix. 

Comment 6

[timeless]

Yes this is an os bug, however we do have precedents for papering over 
such things (file:///c|/con/con among others). On NT most applications paper 
over known brokeness in standard hebrew fonts [we instead designed our 
support around those broken fonts].