294841 - mozilla firefox doesnt use the font server

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[nidoranz multimedia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.1

Mozilla firefox don't display the kanji correctly on the specified site. The
problem is fixed when competent replacement fonts are put in /usr/share/fonts.

Mozilla Firefox doesn't start when /usr/share/fonts is empty


In both cases this computer has a correctly working xorg.conf pointing to a
remote font server.
the remote font server is working perfectly

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1:
1.1. make sure you don't have good replacement fonts in /usr/share/fonts
1.2. browse to http://nidoranz.dyndns.org/~itamboer/
1.3. if kanji is displayed, blow up the text (ctrl +) and see the kanji doesn't
grow like the latin text

2:
2.1. mkdir ~/fonts
2.2. mv -r /usr/share/fonts/* ~/fonts
2.3. start firefox

Actual Results:  
1: no/too small kanji
2: firefox refuses to start

Expected Results:  
1: get correctly scaled kanji from the (remote) font server
2: get (correctly scaled) fonts from the (remote) font server

this system is a gentoo linux system. firefox has been emerged correctly from
the portage tree

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

We don't accept bugs form non-Mozilla.org builds and we also don't accept bug
reports from old builds. Firefox1.0.1 is old and for Layout related things the
whole FF1.0.X branch is to old because the Gecko in FF1.0.X is older than 12+
months.


Please verifix that this is still a problem with a recent Mozilla.org Trunk
developer build.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

beyond what Matti said, this bug is INVALID.  firefox ships with xft, which does
not play with xfs.  See:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg01950.html