163754 - Cyrillic page display is missing glyphs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[marina]

I noticed that a lot of cyrillic pages are missing glyphs. The blanks are so
frequent that they prevent reading and understanding of those pages. Some of
russian pages that originally display correctly when sent in mail (Page send...)
are missing glyphs in the thread and message body.I thought that this is a font
issue but would i lack proper fonts those chars would probably be displayed as
question marks (????). So is it a converter problem? I'll attach a screen shot.

Comment 1

[marina]

Attachment: here is a screen shot of the russian web page, you can see the missing glyphs

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Duplicate of bug 162593?
Does deleting components/compreg.dat help? (Exit all instances of Mozilla first).

Comment 3

[marina]

this bug has nothing to do with bug #162593, this problem is on the branch and
has been there for a while, it is not that encoding is broken and the page can
not be rendered correctly, this is a possible converter problem.

Comment 4

[Jungshik Shin]

It looks like you don't have any Cyrillic font installed on your system. All of
Cyrillic letters in your screenshot were rendered with 'doubld width' glyphs
from CJK fonts (that cover a subset of Cyrillic letters but not all of them). 
What do you get if you do 'xlsfonts |grep koi' or 'xlsfonts |grep 8859-5'.  If
you get nothing, it's definitely caused by the lack of any Cyrillic fonts on
your system. 

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This seems like an issue specific to a particular installation and not relevant to current code.