274120 - Japanese webpage which assigned font-family as "Gothic" is garbled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Japanese webpage which assigned font-family as "Gothic" is garbled.

Reproduced with Firefox 20041206/Linux.
It seems this bug is a RedHat-specific.

Original report in Bugzilla-jp:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=3902

Screenshot:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/attachment.cgi?id=2374

Comment 1

[Jungshik Shin]

I can't reproduce it here with a gtk2+xft build(mozilla suite, 1.7). What set of
build configuration is used? The output of 'about:buildconfig' would help.

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

Pls, ignore my previous comment. It must be gtk2+xft. The page in question (
http://www.nikkei.co.jp) has                       the following set of fonts
listed in the stylesheet:

ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', osaka, Gothic, sans-serif

At the moment Mozilla doesn't recognize non-ASCII font names and 'osaka' is not
available on most Linux box (that's a Mac OS X font) so that it ends up using
'Gothic' (it's not usually available either as a truetype font on Linux, but
somehow on Linux boxes for which the bug was found, the bitmap font named
'Gothic' seems to be offered via fontconfig). I wonder why 'sans-serif' at the
end doesn't return other Japanese fonts with necessary glyphs.  

Comment 3

[Takanori MATSUURA]

This bug reprodued with Red Hat Linux 9, and not reproduced with Fedora Core 2.
I never checked with Fedora Core 1.

Glyphs of numbers shown in the screen shot in comment 0 (eg. "(03:04)",
"(00:01)") looks like the output of the command "xfd -fa Gothic-16" in Red Hat
Linux 9.

Comment 4

[Jungshik Shin]

(In reply to comment #3)

> Glyphs of numbers shown in the screen shot in comment 0 (eg. "(03:04)",
> "(00:01)") looks like the output of the command "xfd -fa Gothic-16" in Red Hat
> Linux 9.

No, they're not glyph indices but Unicode code points of characters for which
Mozilla can't find glyphs.
BTW, I'm on RH9, but can't reproduce it (which is not so surprising because you
may have a different fontconf configuration along with a different set of fonts
installed). What's the output of 'fc-list Gothic'? 

Comment 5

[Koike Kazuhiko]

% fc-list Gothic
Gothic:style=Bold
Gothic:style=Italic
Gothic:style=Regular
Gothic:style=Bold Italic
%

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

Thanks. Can you try 'fc-list Gothic file style lang'? 

Comment 7

[Takanori MATSUURA]

$ fc-list Gothic file style lang
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm9x18a.pcf.gz: :style=Regular:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm8x16a.pcf.gz: :style=Regular:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm9x18ai.pcf.gz: :style=Italic:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm6x12ai.pcf.gz: :style=Italic:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm7x14a.pcf.gz: :style=Regular:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm9x18ab.pcf.gz: :style=Bold:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|
da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc|o
m|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm6x12ab.pcf.gz: :style=Bold:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|
da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc|o
m|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm8x16ai.pcf.gz: :style=Italic:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm8x16abi.pcf.gz: :style=Bold Italic:lang=aa|ast|ay|b
i|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn
|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm8x16ab.pcf.gz: :style=Bold:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|ch|
da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc|o
m|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm6x12abi.pcf.gz: :style=Bold Italic:lang=aa|ast|ay|b
i|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn
|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm9x18abi.pcf.gz: :style=Bold Italic:lang=aa|ast|ay|b
i|br|ch|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn
|no|oc|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu
/usr/share/fonts/ja/misc/shnm6x12a.pcf.gz: :style=Regular:lang=aa|ast|ay|bi|br|c
h|da|de|en|es|eu|fj|fo|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|lb|mg|nb|nl|nn|no|oc
|om|pt|rm|sma|smj|so|sq|sv|sw|tn|ts|vo|wa|xh|yap|zu

Comment 8

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Koike-san cannot reproduce this bug (commented in bugzilla-jp). And the original report in bugzilla-jp was already marked to WFM.

-> WFM