Closed Bug 111731 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Japanese font used for Cyrillic and Greek

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 111728
mozilla1.2alpha

People

(Reporter: hsivonen, Assigned: nhottanscp)

Details

Build ID: 2001112020 FizzillaCFM

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load any page with Greek text eg. http://www.microsoft.com/hellas/ms.htm
2) Load any page using the Cyrillic script eg. http://www.apple.ru/news/

Actual results:
The pages are rendered using a font from the Hiragino family. The Cyrillic and
Greek chars in those fonts are kerned to match the width of Kanji block. This
looks bad when the dominant script is Greek or Cyrillic.

Expected results:
Unless the user has other Greek or Cyrillic fonts installed, expected Mozilla to
use Lucida Grande. Lucida Grande has a larger repertoire of Cyrillic and Greek
chars and the kerning is better suited for situations when Greek or Cyrillic is
the dominant script.

Additional information:
See also bug 111728.
MacX->nhotta
cc'ing shanjian
Assignee: yokoyama → nhotta
I am not sure if Frank wants to do this after he comes back.
Accept for now and set 0.9.9.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.9
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.9 → mozilla1.2
maybe we should disable TECFallback and let ATSUI fallback kick in directly. Not
sure about performacne impact. 
see bug 111728 also. see issue
QA Contact: teruko → ylong
Marking as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111728 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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