180670 - Characters in the middle of strings are sometimes displayed in a much smaller font

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 180667

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Miles Bader]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1

Occasionally in a run of text, a single character will show up in a much smaller
font; looking at the page source, the characters are in the middle of strings,
and not obviously distinguished (i.e., there aren't any tags or even whitespace
around them).

I've only noticed this with japanese text, and only on google (though it shows
up on various google pages).

I think it also has only shown up since I started using XFree86's truetype font
renderer (which usually makes japanese web pages look _much_ better).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you're using the environment as described below
2. View the web page give above
3. Look for any characters that look `odd'
Actual Results:  
A few oddly sized characters; I will attach an image file showing the problem

Expected Results:  
No oddly sized characters

Debian unstable

XFree86 4.2.1 (from the debian package)

Using XFree86's builtin font rendering (no font server)

Mozilla `Japanese' font selection set to `Take-kochi mincho-jis0208.1990-0' and
`Take-kochi gothic-jis0208.1990-0' (for serif/non-serif) @ 12-pixels size

Above fonts installed from debian `ttf-kochi-gothic' and `ttf-kochi-mincho'
packages (I also seem to have two more font packages with the same names, but
with `-naga10' appended; I'm not sure if this makes any difference)

Font path modified by adding:
	FontPath	"/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi"
to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 180667 ***

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

dup sub