159250 - Why can't i select a fantasy font for western

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 142511

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[timeless]

This is one of those if it looks like a shoe and feels like a shoe, then I
expect it to be a shoe. or something...

steps:
edit>preferences>appearance>fonts

for hebrew, I can select Arial for each category (except proportional - bug 159249)
for western, I get
Fantasy: No fonts available for this language

This makes a lot of sense, since after all, my system is designed for western,
hebrew was clearly an afterthought, and yet in hebrew I can select Arial for
Fantasy.

Also affects: Central European, Cyrillic, Baltic, Greek, Turkish.

Does not affect: Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean,
Unicode, User Defined, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic.

If I can select a font for unicode, wouldn't it reason that i can select it for
western?

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

> This is one of those if it looks like a shoe and feels like a shoe, then I
> expect it to be a shoe. or something...

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. Now I can go to sleep.

Gerv

Comment 2

[Eli Friedman]

Dup of bug 142511?

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142511 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verification of Duplicates.

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