134442 - Hebrew fonts not recognized in CSS and as default font

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Matthew Blanchard]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020329
BuildID:    20020329

[I assume the user is using a Hebrew version of Microsoft Windows.]

Some Hebrew fonts (eg. David, Miriam, Rod) are not recognized in CSS or when
selected as the default Hebrew font (menu: Preferences / Appearance / Fonts).

For example, when viewing the following piece of HTML,

<div style="font-family: david">
... hebrew text ...
</div>

then the user sees the default font instead of David.

But some other fonts are recognized. If we use Tahoma (or Frankruehl, or Arial),
as in:

<div style="font-family: tahoma">
... hebrew text ...
</div>

then the user sees the Hebrew text rendered in Tahomam, as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthew Blanchard]

Attachment: a sample HTML file

Comment 2

[Matthew Blanchard]

Attachment: screenshot: how Mozilla renders the HTML

The first 4 test lines (David, Miriam, Rod, Narkisim) are rendered in the
default font.

The following 2 lines (Frankruehl, Tahoma) are rendered in the correct font.

(The "English Fonts" section is just for comparison.)

Comment 3

[Matthew Blanchard]

Attachment: screenshot: how IE renders the HTML

IE has no problems with Hebrew fonts.

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

WORKSFORME on Win2K with a recent nightly. Bug 132341 (reported on Mac) is similar.

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

... but confirming the bug in 0.9.9 on Win98.

Comment 6

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Still broken here: Moz 1.0 on windows 98.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So is this Win9x specific then?

Comment 8

[Jungshik Shin]

Or Win9x/ME-specifc, I guess (we really need 'meta-platform' like Win 9x/ME, Win
2k/XP, Unix, etc in bugzilla). I just confirmed again what Simon wrote back in
2002 (it works fine on Win2k).

Comment 9

[Jungshik Shin]

Sorry, bz. I thought you had written 'Win98' specific instead of 'Win 9x'
specific. And sorry for bugspam.

Comment 10

[Uri Bernstein]

WONTFIXing since Win9x is no longer supported.