106952 - Hebrew text in XUL elements and input controls shown badly.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Ilya Tsindlekht]

The hebrew text in bookmarks and input fields is shown in such a way
that top parts of letters are invisible. In other places the text is
shown OK. Attached image shows problem.

Comment 1

[Ilya Tsindlekht]

Attachment: Part of screen showing problem.

Comment 2

[Markus Gerstel]

*** Bug 106953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

xul.

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

cc: mkaply

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

What font are you using for Hebrew?

What Linux distro?

Comment 6

[Ilya Tsindlekht]

I have an unstable Debian distro, current font packages are
xfonts-100dpi 3.3.5-2
xfonts-75dpi 3.3.5-2
xfonts-base 3.3.5-2
xfonts-base-transcoded 4.1.0-2
xfonts-bolkhov-75dpi 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-75dpi 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-isocyr-75dpi 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-isocyr-misc 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8r-75dpi 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8r-misc 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8u-75dpi 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-koi8u-misc 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-bolkhov-misc 1.1.20001007-2
xfonts-cjk 3.3.6-2
xfonts-cronyx-100dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-75dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-100dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-75dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-cp1251-misc 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-100dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-75dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-misc 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-100dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-75dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-koi8r-misc 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-100dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-75dpi 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-koi8u-misc 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cronyx-misc 2.3.7-8
xfonts-cyrillic 3.3.5-2
xfonts-greek-ph-100dpi 1.1-4
xfonts-greek-ph-75dpi 1.1-4
xfonts-greek-ph-misc 1.1-4
xfonts-greek-ph-scalable 1.1-4
xfonts-intl-european 1.2-2
xfonts-intl-phonetic 1.2-2
xfonts-pex 3.3.6-2
xfonts-scalable 3.3.5-2
xfonts-scalable-nonfree 4.0.3-2

Besides, I got fonts from Windows NT (Hebrew enabled) used.
I have tried many difficult settings of fonts, my current settings for Hebrew
are:
Serif: monotype-arial-iso8859-8
Sans-serif, Cursive,Fantasy - the same.
Monospace monotype-times new roman-iso8859-8
(monotype fonts are those from NT).
I have suspicion that it is just bad font, but how the font used for XUL and
inputs is determined?

Comment 7

[Ilya Tsindlekht]

Hm, I don't see the bug anymore. I think last thing I did with fonts was to move
the Windows font directory to the beginning of font path. Could it affect the 
choise of font? How this font is chosen. Maybe, problem is when a font which
is used cannot be properly scaled?
But the problem with the Cyrillic port which I reported (bug 106951) still 
exists.

Comment 8

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

The font you get in those cases I believe depends on the theme or on the system 
font.

In this case, you might have caused the preferred font for the theme (which was 
a Windows font) to be picked over the Linix fonts.

Comment 9

[Ilya Tsindlekht]

Thank you, now I get all working normally. I just had some bad font installed
as default. Sorry bothering you.