217943 - In Photon, justified international text is drawn incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Photon, defect)

Description

[Julian Kinraid]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Photon; U; QNX x86pc; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030805
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Photon; U; QNX x86pc; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030805

In pages that draw international text with special character spacing (such as in
a justified paragraph), the result is a jumbled mess of characters.  The code
for drawing the text (in the photon component only) only treats the text as a
sequence of single-byte characters, instead of multibyte.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://qnx.org.ru/
Actual Results:  
The news items on the site are unreadable.

Expected Results:  
There should be the correct spacing and characters in the news items.

Comment 1

[Julian Kinraid]

Attachment: A patch to correct the handling of multibyte text

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

amardare, is this something that could be useful to you?

Comment 3

[amardare]

I have 2 comments:
1)The patch is based off rev 1.77 of nsRenderingContextPh.cpp, but the current
revision is 1.84.
2) The site displays fine with mozilla 1.7 and 1.6.

Comment 4

[amardare]

Actually the patch does seem to fix a problem that still exist. I'll commit the
changes when I get a chance.

Comment 5

[Alfred Kayser]

With the removal of gfx/src/photon (see bug 447693) this bug is fixed by the Cairo implementation.