158560 - Incorrect display of some iso-8859-2 characters

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Ignacy Niemczycki]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072103

For some unknown reasons Mozilla has problems with correct display of two
specific polish characters: ł and ń, it occurs with both sans-serif and serif
fonts. Moreover, on some pages the fonts are displayed correctly. It surely
does't depend on font used on page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit the page listonoszmac. republika.pl
2.Some characters are bigger than the rest, especially ł and ń

Actual Results:  The characters are displayed incorrectly

Expected Results:  Of course it should display the fonts correctly, compare the
page displayed with Mozilla for OS X and with Internet Explorer for OS X

I know that this problem has been mentioned before, but somebody has changed its
status to "Works fine for me" for unknown reason. I think this is a very
important bug, because it makes the page nearly unreadable.

Comment 1

[Ignacy Niemczycki]

Attachment: I have highlited the words with incorrectly displayed characters

Comment 2

[Ignacy Niemczycki]

Attachment: A screenshot from I.E. 5.2.1 for OS X

The first screenshot was from Mozilla for OS X with some words highlited, this
one  is from Internet Explorer 5.2.1 for Mac OS X and it displays the
cgaracters corrextly. I post these just for comparison.

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

always a "ł" having to much gap.... hm

Comment 4

[Wesha]

Probably mac specific problem, works fine on 2002072008/win98

Might be related to: bug 18095, bug 5488, bug 35551.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Actually, this is a duplicate of bug 148361.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 148361 ***

Comment 6

[Wesha]

vrfy dupe

Comment 7

[Wesha]

vrfy dupe

Comment 8

[Ignacy Niemczycki]

I would suggest reopening this bug. Even though bug 148361(a prevailing
duplicate of this bug) has been marked as a duplicate of bug 111728 and 111728
has been marked as fixed, polish characters are still not displayed correctly.
Probably, this bug also depends on bugs 121540 and 163085. Moreover this bug
should be listed in Meta bug 103669.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

I think the remaining problems may be caused by bug 165878, per bug 111728,
comment 68.

Comment 10

[Ignacy Niemczycki]

Dear Greg :)
I thing it's not really the way you see it, please see bug 201817 that I have
just filed.

Comment 11

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Possible testcase

I still think this is that other bug, but here's a testcase we can talk about.
Does this demonstrate the problem, Ignacy?

Comment 12

[Ignacy Niemczycki]

Yes, It does.
P.S.
Your right, this bug depends on the other bugs you mentioned and I mentioned in
bug 201817. Can we then, leave this bug as it is, but add some dependecies and
if all of the other bugs are fixed we will see if Mozilla displayes iso-8859-2
specific characters fine. If it does this bug will be closed (sort of tracking
bug). I propose this because I'm not 100% sure that fixing all those other bugs
will for sure fix this bug as well. What do you think?

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

I think both roy and me are off mozilla for more than 2 years. If these bugs are
still here now, I think the real stauts is 'won't fix'. If you want to reopen
it, please find a new owner for it first. 

Comment 14

[Travis Chase]

Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam

Comment 15

[Travis Chase]

Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all
the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him

Comment 16

[Travis Chase]

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

Comment 17

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

gfx has changed to address this problem.