213133 - "Allow documents to use other fonts" does not always work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Sebastian von Knorring]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030712
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030712

I have selected in my font preferences the same font for all text types (serif,
sans-serif, etc.). I have also unchecked 'Allow pages to use other fonts'. With
these changes, I expect that only the font I selected will be seen in pages.
However, when I go to the URL above (Microsoft security bulletin) the bulletin
text in the main frame is seen in 'Times New Roman'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the font preferences, choose a single font for all text types (serif,
sans-serif, etc.). I have reproduced this for example by entering 'Lucida
Console' in all places.
2. Also in the font preferences, uncheck 'Allow pages to use other fonts'.
3. Go to URL.
Actual Results:  
The main security bulletin text is seen rendered in 'Times New Roman' (..I
think. At least the font is not the one I had selected.)

Expected Results:  
The security bulletin text should have been rendered with the selected font (in
my case, 'Lucida Console').

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

That URL contains: 
<meta content="text/html;charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">

It may be that TNR is your only installed font for charset UTF-8, or the only
one remaining when your selection doesn't offer UTF-8. TNR is what Netscape 4
does to me on such pages, even though I have selected no serif fonts in prefs,
nor allow pages to use other fonts.

In trying to repro in W98, I was unable to select Lucida Console for sans-serif,
but I did select Lucida Console for serif. "TNR" seemed to be the body text font
used only if in font prefs I selected serif for proportional. I got the Arial as
selected in prefs for sans-serif when proportional sans-serif was selected.

Lucida Console is a monospaced font. Methinks that makes this bug invalid. 

Reporter, what happens when you select sans-serif for proportional and set your
serif and sans-serif to proportional faces?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What encoding did you set your font prefs for?  Make sure that you've set them
for "Unicode" in addition to "Western" (the latter is the default thing you set
in that prefs panel).

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

For a way to fix this, see http://geocrawler.com/archives/3/112/2001/8/0/6456651/

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking incomplete.  I bet comment 2 is what the issue was, though.