162966 - Incorrect letter spacing around links on pages with Japanese content

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[adam rice]

On pages declared as having a Japanese character-set in the meta-data, letter
spacing surrounding links is compressed or overlapping. The line of text in
question need not contain any Japanese. This seems to be a consistent bug with
Japanese pages.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Adam, what build ID are you reporting this bug against?

Comment 2

[adam rice]

I can't find an exact build number (nothing in the title bar, about box, or "get
info" window), but this is Chimera 0.4.0, creation date July 24 (or is that time
local to my machine?)

It occurred to me (belatedly) that my exact font setup might be implicated.
FWIW, the fonts I am using for Japanese are as follows:
Serif: HeiseiMincho W3, 14pt
Sans-serif: HeiseiKakuGothic W5, 14pt
Monospace: Osaka Regular, 14pt
Cursive: Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4, 14pt

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Adam, please retest using a recent nightly build. Work has lately been done on
internationalization issues like this.

Comment 4

[adam rice]

Just downloaded build ID 2002081705 and the problem is still evident on the same
page I cited before. (Not to mention the fact that, when first launched, this
build decided it had to ping every website in my bookmarks, many of which asked
if they could set cookies. Ugh.)

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Seems to WorkForMe using Chimera/2002081605. Can you attach a screenshot?

Comment 6

[RalphNumbers]

Attachment: The Problem Area of the mentioned page (tiff)

Ok, I can confirm this (with build 2002081805).  I've attached a screen grab of
the problem area on the mentioned page, and I've seen this problem on several
other japanese pages.

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using Chimera/2002081605. This reminds me of bug 148399, but that was
supposed to be trunk-only, and not a problem on the 1.0 branch.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Please use JPEG/PNG for snapshots.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

I bet this doesn't happen with Mozilla, since bug 111728 was fixed. Is this
another of those bugs about rolling that patch into the Chimera branch?

Comment 10

[Michael Lam]

This also happens in some Traditional Chinese Pages like the following -

http://taiwan.cnet.com/news/comms/story/0,2000022641,20054303,00.htm

The letter spacing and letter width is incorrect, which makes the paragraph goes
slightly bigger.

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Dup of bug 169126?

Comment 12

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Taking.

Comment 13

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

seems fixed with  2003090102 on 10.2.6.

Comment 14

[Jasper]

WFM 20040206 NB