175810 - Cryllic and Greek encodings only show one font in the font selector

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

From bug #126919:

Just installed the 1.1 beta build with xft support for RedHat 8.0 from the RPM
files provided at the mozilla ftp site. The xft support is OK. I only have the
following remark.

When I go to select Mozilla fonts in Appearance / Fonts I can't chose any other
font than "Palatino Linotype" for Cyrillic and Greek encodings. In other
encodings I can select all the fonts. And - yes I'we got some Cyrillic and Greek
fonts instaled and properly configured - including the MS fonts from Windows. 

The cyrillic fonts are working fine with other xft2 applications like GNOME and
KDE from RH8. Also the Cyrillic fonts are working fine with the very same
mozilla in the main window when you surf - so I can see Cyrillic Verdana on
www.mksoftver.org or www.bagra.net.mk so I suppose this is a tiny bug.

Hope I hellped - have fun.

Comment 1

[Niklas Dougherty]

Congratulations! On Mac OS X, you can't choose _any_ Greek (Hebrew, Arabic)
font. Says there are no fonts installed... and you can only choose a few very
bad Cyrillic fonts, while one can actually choose any font for Hindi.

Comment 2

[Zlatko Trajceski]

> Just installed the 1.1 beta build with xft support...

This should be 1.2 beta build - my mistake in typing.

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Are you on Red Hat 8?  Can other applications see the correct fonts?

Comment 4

[Zlatko Trajceski]

Yes I'm on RedHat 8.0 and I use the RPMS from:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2b/Red_Hat_8x_RPMS/xft/i386/

In RedHat 7.3 I used th RPMS from:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/xft/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/1.0/i386/
and they did NOT have this problem.


The fonts are configured and working fine with other xft2 applications from
GNOME2 and KDE3 like I said. Eaven the mozilla-1.2b-0_rh8_xft can see them so
when I surf some cyrillic page written with Verdana font - the font is fine, but
 I can't select some other font in the Appearance / Fonts - Preferences dialog.
I suppose it's an interface (toolkit) font problem because if I start the
mozilla with the LANG=en_US.utf8 localle the intreface font is the same as the
GTK2 font - tahoma, but when I start it with LANG=mk_MK.utf8 the font is that
ugly "Palatino Linotype" font that is the only cyrillic font recognised by
mozilla interface.

Comment 5

[Jonathan]

Is this still the case?

Comment 6

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Comment 7

[Neil Deakin]

Probably not valid any more, but moving to a more suitable component.