293677 - slovak accented characters look wrong

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Mac, defect)

Description

[u162355]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050510 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050510 Firefox/1.0+

slovak accented characters look as if they were displayed with a different font.

try the mentioned webpage (http://nekomancer.net/slovaktest.html), and you'll see.

this works fine with safari on osx, or with firefox on linux. so it seems to be
an osx-only firefox problem.













Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://nekomancer.net/slovaktest.html
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
the accented characters are displayed incorrectly

Expected Results:  
the accented characters should be displayed like the rest of the text

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0+

It is possible that Safari's (and Camino's) font rendering differs from 
Firefox's, but I am surprised that you are seeing a problem. Is the font 
setting for Central Europe 'Times' or 'Times CE' (I think both should work).

If it is something else, then what does that font look like in other 
applications?

Do you have a screen shot which shows the bad render? Perhaps the characters
are being displayed in a different font.

Comment 2

[u162355]

Attachment: firefox-osx.png

Comment 3

[u162355]

Attachment: safari-osx.png

Comment 4

[u162355]

Attachment: firefox-linux.png

Comment 5

[u162355]

i checked, the font settings are the default times/helvetica for all locales,
and times-ce/helvetica-ce for the central-european one.

Comment 6

[u162355]

btw. if you check this comment:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281109#c3

and then check the screenshots attached to that bug..

so is there a problem with central-european fonts?

Comment 7

[Ben Fowler]

I don't know.

The effect is a subtle one. At some sizes, my render does look scrappy - as
though at typiocal sizes it needed a bit mapped font, or a better anti-alias,
but yours looks worse; look at the accented lower case 'c'.

Perhaps what you are seeing is a dup of the other bug.

Comment 8

[u162355]

today i tested the webpages again, and i found out 2 things:

1. on my test page, the text is now ok. it seems that some firefox update fixed
it ;)

2. on an other page, i found out that it requests the Tahoma font. i disabled
Tahoma on my computer,and now also that page looks ok.

so, now everything is ok. i'll close the bug. thanks and sorry

Comment 9

[Ben Fowler]

Last time I checked, there still seemed to be a problem. Could you let us know
whether you have found (only) a work-around, or that you consider that the
problem has gone away; and thank you for reporting a fairly subtle defect.