275645 - Chinese word can only show half

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[xbtsw]

Some Chinese words can only see half
This problem usually appear in the last word of the sentence and usually only
can show the left half of it.
I also have a snap picture of this problem in jpg format,but I don't know how to
sent it to you.

Comment 1

[xbtsw]

Attachment: i have notice it in the bug describe

i have notice it in the bug describe, as you see, some Chinese word can only
see half.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

The problem seems to be in the page source. I am guessing that the forum
software is truncating the post titles to a fixed length, and this sometimes
cuts a multi-byte character in half.

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The problem seems to be in the page source. I am guessing that the forum
> software is truncating the post titles to a fixed length, and this sometimes
> cuts a multi-byte character in half.

Indeed that appears to be the case. However, that doesn't explain what's
captured in attachment 169347 [details] (the first case in the screenshot) because a lone
lead byte of a multibyte character is invalid so that it has to be rendered with
'?' or gibberish instead of a glyph being cut in half.

Comment 4

[xbtsw]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > The problem seems to be in the page source. I am guessing that the forum
> > software is truncating the post titles to a fixed length, and this sometimes
> > cuts a multi-byte character in half.
> 
> Indeed that appears to be the case. However, that doesn't explain what's
> captured in attachment 169347 [details] [edit] (the first case in the screenshot)
because a lone
> lead byte of a multibyte character is invalid so that it has to be rendered with
> '?' or gibberish instead of a glyph being cut in half.
> 
> 
> 
> 

Thanks for your kind reply, and a new discovery of this problem is that when I
select the last unshown word in the sentence it will show correctly.But when I
select the hole sentence the problem will happen again.Please see the attachment
I update this time.
And this problem will go in progress that means the more word words I selected
the unshown part will be more, at last, when I select the hole sentence the
unshown part will become half.

Comment 5

[xbtsw]

Attachment: The rar pack include 7 jpg files

as you see, the more i select,the more unshown.

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

I can't reproduce it on Linux with gtk2+xft (1.7.5). I'll try my trunk build.

re: attachment 169419 [details]: 
Open 7 jpeg files in attachment 169419 [details] and compare them side by side. The more
characters are selected from the right, the more characters (among those not
selected) disappear (get obscured by the selection?)

Comment 7

[xbtsw]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I can't reproduce it on Linux with gtk2+xft (1.7.5). I'll try my trunk build.
> 
> re: attachment 169419 [details] [edit]: 
> Open 7 jpeg files in attachment 169419 [details] [edit] and compare them side by side.
The more
> characters are selected from the right, the more characters (among those not
> selected) disappear (get obscured by the selection?)
And please notice the last character(before the "?"),the more characters I
select from the right the more the last character disappear, at last, half of it
disappeared.

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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