157173 - Mozilla looked bad because Debian disabled TrueType Fonts

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

I am using
   Mozilla 1.1a+
   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020712
   (Debian package)

Since the last upgrade (today), Mozilla does not find fonts other programs do
find. At the moment, it looks quite ugly.

Furthermore, in the fonts Mozilla finds, I cannot find any with umlauts.

If you look at the screenshots, you can see that especially the font Verdana is
missing, and others, too.

Comment 1

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Attachment: Fonts page in Mozilla's preferences

Comment 2

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Attachment: Beginning of font list in Mozilla's üpreferences

Comment 3

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Attachment: End of font list in Mozilla's preferences

Comment 4

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Attachment: Font selection dialog in KDE preferences

Comment 5

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Attachment: Font selection dialog in KDE preferences with charset selection open - Mozilla has no control for selecting the charset

Comment 6

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

Attachment: Mozilla showing a page containing umlauts - these are missing

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

fonts is internationalization

Comment 8

[Roy Yokoyama]

assign to shanjian , cc brian, ftang and myself

Comment 9

[kill this account]

Are you using Truetype fonts?

If so: are you using the direct->FreeType2 access or the Xft->FreeType2 access?
(ie: did you follow this URL 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html
or did you get your moz from a Redhat rpm?)

To make this problem more manageable I would like to suggest we begin by 
focusing on a particular font. Would you kindly point out a particular font 
that you find missing?

The issue of the font selection dialog functionality is an entirely separate 
problem and should be addressed in a separate bug (I must warn you that there 
have been interminable discussions on its design with several individuals 
ramming their opinions down everyone else's throats).

Comment 10

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

I am using Truetype fonts, and I am using a Debian build. So I will just contact
the maintainer of the Debian packages, probably he disabled Truetype support.

Sorry for bothering.,.

Comment 11

[Jens Müller (:tessarakt)]

OK, I am sorry, the package maintainer did disable Truetype support:

mozilla-snapshot (0.0.20020714.04.trunk-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * CVS update (trunk)
  * applied Erich's gtk2 package diffs.
  * --enable-xft, --disable-freetype2
  * install pc file for pkgconfig (closes: #152541)

 -- Takuo KITAME <[e-mail]>  Sun, 14 Jul 2002 04:34:09 +0900

Comment 12

[Yuying Long]

Thanks! So should we resolve this as invalid or worksforme?

Comment 13

[Shanjian Li]

resolve as worksforme. 

Comment 14

[Yuying Long]

Verified per a few comments above.