248221 - Japanese/unicode fonts do not display correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41250

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

Description

[Kareem Dana]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

When I go to the URL http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/bittorrent.ja.html
the japanese characters are displays as odd box symbols like in this screenshot:

http://www.duke.edu/~kcd6/japan-font.jpg

Also, http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/unitest.xhtml displays the same box
symbols for unicode characters. A screenshot of how that site displays for me is
at: http://www.duke.edu/~kcd6/unicode.jpg

At http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/bittorrent.ja.html, firefox correctly
(?) changes the character encoding to "Japanese (EUC-JP)" but still does not
display the correct japanese. Do I need to install any seperate japanese font or
anything? It seems that a more reasonable approach would be for the browser to
notify me that it cannot display the page correctly and point to a solution or
download if that happens to the be problem.

For the unicode page, firefox changes the character encoding to "Unicode
(UTF8)", but still does not correctly display the unicode characters. I am able
to reproduce all these issues in both firefox 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7 on the same
computer.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/bittorrent.ja.html or
http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/unitest.xhtml
2. Notice how characters are not rendered correctly
3.

Actual Results:  
Unicode/japanese characters rendered as box symbols with hex inside.

Expected Results:  
Rendered the actual correct character.

Comment 1

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41250 ***