273035 - Default fonts for Cyrillic character set are wrong

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159809

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Borokhov (lensovet)]

User-Agent:       [Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/2002]
Build Identifier: [Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/2002]

In the Appearance prefpane, Fonts tab, there are default fonts set for different
character sets. The ones for Cyrillic are incorrect - those fonts do NOT ship
with Russian Mac OS X versions. Could you pass on (or is there someplace I can
change myself?) the following correct fonts for the Cyrillic font set:
Proportional (serif) should be: Times CY
Monospace should be: Monaco CY
As for the fonts under "Advanced...", I'm providing a list of all the Russian
fonts here and have the developers choose on their own (I'm not really sure what
fantasy and cursive are supposed to look like...). Russian fonts supplied with
Russian systems and from Apple Russia: Charcoal CY, Geneva CY, Helvetica CY,
Monaco CY, and Times CY (the actual filenames contain no spaces and have a
.dfont extension).
Changing these settings will greatly improve font rendering quality for users
who do not know/care to change the default font settings in Appearance.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reset all Appearance preferences by deleting Camino's preference file or
installing Camino for the first time
2. Open Preferences, Appearance tab
3. Open the Fonts tab and select Cyrillic from the drop-down menu

Actual Results:  
All the default fonts are missing from the system and need to be changed for
adequate font rendering performance.

Expected Results:  
All the default fonts are present on the system and pages render correctly.

Comment 1

[Marcello Testi]

I'd add that, while it has nothing to do with localizators' work, it is a l10n
(or, at least i18n) issue. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This is a dupe of bug 159809.  See also the (fixed) bug 183932, which contained
some useful work for resolving the issue for other non-Western European languages.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159809 ***

Comment 3

[Paul Borokhov (lensovet)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is a dupe of bug 159809.  See also the (fixed) bug 183932, which contained
> some useful work for resolving the issue for other non-Western European languages.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159809 ***

Well, it's a duplicate in the sense that it concerns non-Western fonts.
It's NOT a duplicate, however, in that for the other scripts, the glyphs have
been integrated into the Western fonts. For Cyrillic however, they have NOT been
integrated, and we need those "CY" additions on the end of the font name (the
default Camino fonts are completely different, I think APC Courier and Latinski).
Should this still be considered a dupe?

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

If you look at bug 159809 comment 5, it indicates there are problems across the
board with non-WE charsets (also comments to bug 183932).  Rather than address
all the different locales/charsets piecemeal in five separate bugs and five
separate patches, it's best to put them all in one bug--whether the underlying
change is that glyphs have been integrated into "standard" Mac OS X fonts or the
old locale/charset-specific fonts have been replaced by new locale/charset
specific fonts.  So it's a duplicate in that sense.  I'll update the summary on
bug 159809 to cover all non-WE locales, though.

And besides, with new info/active CCs, we'll get some traction on bug 159809 and
get it fixed for all languages! :)