Closed Bug 108412 Opened 23 years ago Closed 17 years ago

nsFontMetricsGTK/nsFontMetricsXlib cannot find correct jisx0201 fonts

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(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
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RESOLVED WONTFIX
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(Reporter: shom, Assigned: jshin1987)

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(4 files, 1 obsolete file)

bugzilla-jp : 1538 on Unix, nsFontMetricsGTK finds illegal jisx0201 fonts. Test Page : http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=361Illegal shot : http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=362 --------------- My setting: System has XLFDs below (all of them are scalable font : ttf) -microsoft-mspmincho-...-p-{iso8859-1,jisx0201.1976-0,jisx0208.1983-0} -microsoft-mspgothic-...-p-{iso8859-1,jisx0201.1976-0,jisx0208.1983-0} -microsoft-msmincho-....-c-{iso8895-1,jisx0201.1976-0,jisx0208.1983-0} -microsoft-msgothic-....-c-{iso8859-1,jisx0201.1976-0,jisx0208.1983-0} Mozilla prefs for Japanese fonts (0.9.5) : serif : mspmincho sans-serif : mspgothic proportional : sans-serif ---------------- Problem: see http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=362 1st section : font face name is nothing, then use prop=sans-serif=mspgothic. OK. 2nd section : font face name is "MS-Mincho" in Japanese. Because mozilla currently cannot treat non-ascii familynames, it's ignored. then use prop=sans-serif=mspgothic. OK. 3rd section : font face name is "msmincho". System has -microsoft-msmincho-...-c-{iso88591-1,jisx0201.1976-0,jisx0208.1983-0}, so mozilla should use these fonts (fontset), but Katakana(jisx0201) seems mspgothic. BAD. 4th section : font face name is "serif" (generic), then use serif=mspmincho. OK. ------------ Solution: http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=369 I tested on 0.9.5/Linux with this patch. Result: http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=370 All OK.
Attached patch patch (obsolete) — Splinter Review
Can somebody review this patch?
shanjian: can you review his patch? It's in linux GTK.
Assignee: yokoyama → shanjian
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Koike, refers to bug 81528, you fix will broke that one, and it is much more serious. In bug 81528, bstell does realize that in certain situation, his method of checking for empty fonts will disable some of the fonts. We have to find a new way to detect empty font.
I am very aware the the test for "empty" fonts can disable valid fonts. A better solution would be nice.
But I do not know a better solution. So the choices available right now are: do not check and display blank (read: unreadable) chars do check and disable some valid fonts
accepting
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Summary: nsFontMetricsGTK cannot find correct jisx0201 fonts → nsFontMetricsGTK/nsFontMetricsXlib cannot find correct jisx0201 fonts
Comment on attachment 58317 [details] [diff] [review] patch The patch does not patch the nsFontMetricsXlib code... ;-(
Attachment #58317 - Flags: needs-work+
Let me state explicitly that I do not intend to make comment or review the attachment. It is my time to step aside and it is time for Shanjian to be the GTK font master.
has this patch been tested to see if it regresses bug 81528 ?
Brian Stell wrote: > has this patch been tested to see if it regresses bug 81528 ? I do not have Redhat Japanese 6.2 ... I can't test it... ;-(
Changed QA contact to ylong@netscape.com since she is QA contact in the related bug 81528 .
QA Contact: teruko → ylong
can you arrange a test build for IQA to test against?
Brian Stell wrote: > can you arrange a test build for IQA to test against? I can provide a test build for Solaris/SPARC - does thaht help ?
humm... the problem was Redhat 6.2
attachment 35436 [details] [diff] [review] in bug 81528 is invalid. It invalidates ALL valid jisx0201 font entries generated by X-TT with -c- spacing. X-TT does not add xFont->per_char with -c- spacing. X-TT is defacto standard X TrueType renderer in Japan. I think all Linux ditributions for Japanese use X-TT. Mutsumi Ishikawa, generator of watanabe.ttf & wadalab.ttf, says they have error. Fixed ttf is here. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic.html http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho.html update package for RH6.2J is not found. # I don't know about cns11643...
> attachment 35436 [details] [diff] [review] in bug 81528 is invalid. Attachment 35436 [details] [diff] detects JISX201 fonts that are lacking ascii glyphs. If these fonts are used then Japanese pages show blank areas where the ascii should be. Has anyone tested that the new attachment retains this required safeguard?
Really? I tested the routine on my machine, it invalidates many valid fonts.
Attached image screenshot
kochi-gothic is valid, but NOPCHAR. wadalab-gothic is invalid, but not EMPTY.
Attachment #104821 - Attachment mime type: application/octet-stream → text/plain
Ishikawa-san said watanabe.ttf / wadalab.ttf has no glyph for jisx0201. So, jisx0201 entries of /usr/lib/X11/TrueType/fonts.dir in RHL6.2J is INVALID. It's nonsense. MISTAKE OF RHL6.2J. # I confirmed that these ttfs has no glyph for jisx0201 with ftview
> it invalidates many valid fonts. Yes, but how would we detect the invalid ones?
> Yes, but how would we detect the invalid ones? I believe it is impossible to detect them without scanning all glyph patterns :( Isn't it possible to use pref("font.x11.rejectfontpattern", "fnames=-(wadalab|watanabe)-.*-jisx0201.*; ...") ? The fndry "watanabe" and "wadalab" is very famous for Japanese (watanabe.ttf, wadalab.ttf). And now we know they don't have glyphs for jisx0201. # I don't know about sun-ming-cns11643-[12] (related bug 67732, bug 81528).
Font banning would be a more intelligent solution but when font banning enabled the startup performance suffered so it had to be turned off. Until that is fixed we cannot use it. :( > I believe it is impossible to detect them without scanning all glyph patterns Actually, that's not a totally unreasonable thing to do. Moz already has font catalog code for the direct FreeType2 code. I remember seeing a posting in the last few months that some other project scans all the fonts for glyphs. Another option to accessing Truetype is to use the Truetype fonts via a FreeType interface such as the direct FreeType code or Xft. In the near future the direct FreeType path will also support printing (Truetype -> Postscript).
fummm.... I feel so > starting performance issue # It should be added ONLY for RH6.2J :b Yes, FT2/Xft is very good solution, I think too. But many Japanese (and Chinese, Korean) cannot be satisfied because lack of Oblique/Italic/Bold valiants for any TTFs. I know no TTF set for screen display with Oblique/Italic/Bold valiants. TTF renderer of Windows/Mac generates them with calcuration. If such set would be, they need many many memory.. (about 8M * 4 for each set) XTT in X is not maintained any more (and has some bugs) but we (and all CJK users, I think) use it because it has "glyph morphing" feature. It can generate Oblique/Bold glyphs from normal glyphs. attachment 35436 [details] [diff] [review] rejects all jisx0201 pseudo fonts XTT generated with -c- spacing. We cannot use scalable(TTF) ASCII glyphs on all Japanese pages. XTT doesn't generate per_char FontStruct for performance. # If mozilla (or freetype, Xft) could generate them, we can say good-bye to suck XLFDs...
"Bugzilla Bug 108412" is displayed in ugly font. Should we still care about RedHat 6.2?
shanjian is no longer working on mozilla for 2 years and these bugs are still here. Mark them won't fix. If you want to reopen it, find a good owner first.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Mass Re-assigning bugs that Frank Tang Closed on March 1st Spam is his fault Mass Re-Open to follow
Assignee: shanjian → nobody
Mass Bug Re-Open of bugs Frank Tang Closed with no good reason. Spam is his fault not my own
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam
Assignee: nobody → jshin1987
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Should this bug be WONTFIX? Since GTK+1/Xlib code was removed by bug 326152.
(In reply to comment #31) > Should this bug be WONTFIX? > Since GTK+1/Xlib code was removed by bug 326152. I seconded. GTK2 uses fontconfig and fontconfig uses font set. So we don't need to fix this.
resolution as suggested.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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