1411 - Strange encoding of text characters in chrome

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Viewer App, defect, P1)

Description

[chriss]

I'm using the Nov 17, 1998 internal build of seamonkey on WinNT 4.0.

All text in chrome and location bar shows up as symbols instead of
roman characters. I can still type in urls that work. The problem is best
illustrated by a screen shot:
http://blues/users/chriss/publish/bugs/seamonkey.gif

The problem does NOT occur on my Win98 machine.

Comment 1

[chriss]

Assigning to jevering for now.

Comment 2

[leger]

sujay...does QA see this too?  Please check Win 95 and 98(if possible too).
Thanks!

Comment 3

[sujay]

I downloaded 11/17 & 11/18 for Win 98 and I'm not seeing the same UI
Chris is seeing...chris, all I see is a viewer, a back and forward
button and some pulldown menus...you seem to be seeing a lot more...
I left you a voice mail...Is that the actual screenshot of the
viewer? or is it just to demonstrate a similar problem you're seeing
for the viewer.

Comment 4

[chriss]

You need to run xpview

BTW - when I ran the older viewer, I still had similar character encoding
problems

Comment 5

[leger]

Altering Summary for easy bug priority.

Comment 6

[chriss]

I installed the 19 November version and I still have the same problem on NT4.

To reproduce on my machine, go to the compaq deskpro 5133 in my cube and click
on the shortcut to xpviewer icon on the desktop.

Comment 7

[gerardok]

Re-tested the described bug, but I couldn't reproduce it on my Win NT 4.0 SP3
machine. Chrome characters display fine there. Is there any configuration
setting that may cause the xpviewer display to fail?

Comment 8

[leger]

Can someone try chriss's specific machine please?

Comment 9

[leger]

This only seems to be happening on chriss's machine. Taking off ss: list.

Comment 10

[sujay]

I saw it on chris's machine, I don't know what it is about his
machine that is causing this to happen on ly on his box.
IF the developer wants to investigate further, he can do so
using Chris' NT box.

Comment 11

[Paul MacQuiddy]

xpviewer is dead