220072 - A lot of text is invisible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 190278

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

Description

[Magnus Ljung]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030630
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030630

In the page http://www.tv.nu shows a lot of the text is invisible. It is clear
that there is some text there because it is possible to copy and paste it to
another application, it's just not visible in Mozilla. I haven't noted any
system in which text is invisible but there always seems to be a lot of missing
text on the above webpage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.tv.nu
2. Look at the missing text, possibly by selecting it

Comment 1

[Magnus Ljung]

Strangly enough, I found a solution to this problem right after I reported it. I
tried changing the character coding to Baltic (ISO-8859-10) and after that the
invisible text became visible.

It would be interesting to hear why this fixed the problem, though.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Are you using an Xft build?

Comment 3

[Magnus Ljung]

I don't know, I'm running Gentoo Linux and I'm using the mozilla 1.3-r2 package
if that's any help.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

If you don't know, you should probably be filing bugs against Gentoo instead of
here.  I'll assume you are.  (If you are, the fonts should be antialiased.)

Supposedly newer versions of Xft should fix this bug (it's an Xft bug, not a
Mozilla bug)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190278 ***