28968 - Linux: need sensible font defaults for Unicode

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[esther]

Using linux build 2000-02-23-08 italic text does not display as italic  text in 
a message.  An italic text message was sent from 4.7 and 5.0, when viewed in 5.0 
on linux only the text is not displaying as italic.

1. Launch messenger
2. Send yourself a message and put some italic text in the body.
3. Open the message and view it (in linux only).

Result:  Italic text is displayed as normal text
Expected: Italic text to display as italic text

Comment 1

[Richard Zach]

I'm seeing this too.  It also doesn't work for bold.  Looks like the default
display font doesn't have italic and bold variants.  It works fine if I edit the
message by hand to start with <font face="Helvetica"> or <font face="Times">.

Comment 2

[lchiang]

Would this belong to rhp or editor group?

Comment 3

[Richard Zach]

*** Bug 32043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Richard Zach]

Giving this to rhp to take a look.  Attaching testcase.  On my Linux box, with
no x-unicode font prefs in prefs.js, the HTML attributes are not displayed for
<font face="serif"> (except <ul> and <small>).  All HTML attributes are
displayed for any other font.

Comment 5

[Richard Zach]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Zach,
if you go to Prefs|Appearance|Fonts|Unicode, you see charter for all 3 font
families, right? I do, and I think, this is a font bug.
If you see the same, please reassign to Browser|Prefs or so and
[e-mail] (I think, he is the correct owner then).

Comment 7

[Richard Zach]

for me, it's abadi condensed, which is first in the list.  If I understand you
correctly, the bug is: default fonts for Unicode should be Times, Helvetica,
Courier or whatever the default is for Western?

Comment 8

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Zach, yes, we need sensible defaults for all font prefs, and I think the lack of
them causes this bug.

Comment 9

[Richard Zach]

Reassign to erik, changing component.  Updating summary to "all charsets need
sensible font defaults."  This bug manifests itself currently in MailNews, where
the default font for Unicode (which is the encoding used for all message
display) is the first font in the font list, for serif, sans-serif, and fixed. 
It should be something sensible like Times, Helvetica, and Courier.

Comment 10

[Richard Zach]

update QA contact

Comment 11

[Erik van der Poel]

Added default fonts (times, helvetica and courier) for Unicode on Unix. Changed
Summary field to match the rest of this bug report. Please open a separate bug
if any other charsets (other than Unicode) are missing their default fonts, and
let me know which defaults you want for those other charsets too. Marking this
bug FIXED.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

was using today's opt comm build on linux, 2000.03.27.11, and when i go to
Preferences and select Appearance > Fonts > Unicode, i still see charter for
serif, san serif and monospace...

however, when i go through esther's original steps, i do see the italicized
text.

am not sure if what i'm seeing is the correct behavior, but do let me know. thx.

Comment 13

[Erik van der Poel]

That doesn't sound right, but perhaps there were some prefs in your prefs file
(from a previous session). Would you please try either removing the font.*
prefs from the prefs file or creating a whole new profile? Thanks!

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

thx, erik --removing the font.* prefs did the trick. verif as fixed (opt comm
bits) on linux, 2000.03.28.09.