249334 - [gtk1]textarea font change while editing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Marc Mongenet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

When I edit a big (80 KB) textarea, it happens that the textarea font
dinamically changes while editing, and generally an barely readable font is
used. The dynamic  font change occurs after I enter some number of new
characters and is reverted if I delete them. The font may change up to every 20
entered characters.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a site send you a textarea whith a large (say 80 KB) content
2. Add some text
3. Observe the textarea font being changed (for worse)



Expected Results:  
Stay with my default Courier font.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Scott Lively]

In mozilla 1.4 running on solaris 9, the problem shows itself as the font 
changing color to white after approximately 4000-5000 characters.  All 
characters after the font change are not visible unless they are highlighted 
with the mouse.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: testcase

testcase exhibits the bug with seamonkey trunk build 2005110504

insert text at the beginning of the first line.  Before you've typed a whole line, the font will change.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

Attachment: testcase2

The previous testcase doesn't seem to always trigger the bug.  This one seems more consistent.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

==> intl

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

oh, and this is gtk1-only.

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Gtk1/xlib widget code has been removed on trunk and this bug doesn't seem
like a branch candidate.  I can't reproduce with a gtk2 build.

-> WONTFIX