31289 - Mac Central European encoding settings have no font options

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P1)

Description

[Allan Masri]

with 2000030810 (Mac only):
1. Select Edit |Preferences
2. In prefs panel, select fonts
3. from encodings, select Central European.

Result: there are no font options displayed. If you select one or more of the 
blank list items, then save your preferences, when you return to the main 
window, the text in the address field will be enlarged and selected.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

Do you have "Centural European" font installed ? IF you do, you should see at 
least one of the following menu item in the keyboard menu - "Czech","Hungarian", 
"Polish","Slovak". Also, if you installed "Centural European" script suppport, 
you should see the following font in the SimpleText font menu- "Geneva CE" ,  
"Chicago CE"

Comment 2

[Allan Masri]

Central European fonts are visible in simpletext, although keyboards are not 
included in list of available keyboards.
1. Why don't the fonts display in Central European font preferences?
2. What happens when we open an empty popup list?

Comment 3

[Allan Masri]

This bug happens on all platforms.
Steps to reproduce on PC:
1. Select Edit | Preferences menuitem.
2. Select fonts panel.
3. make some changes to the default values. I changed the default font type and 
the "Use my fonts" option, but that may not be necessary.
4. close preferences panel.
5. reopen preferences panel.

Result: fonts have disappeared. Basically, you can only change preferences once. 
After that, they are "frozen".

I'm changing the priority on this to P1 and severity to critical. Basically, if 
this bug is not fixed, this functionality does not exist in the product.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

I think amasri are talking about two different issues here. 
1. On Mac, for Centraul European, there are no font- I think this is because he 
does not completely install Centrual European language kit. If he complete 
install, then he should see those keyboard menu show up. If that is the case, 
this could be invalid. We should try in other's Mac systems or reinstall the 
central european language kit to his system 
2. The all platform problem- amasri- please open a seperate bug and assing to 
jbetak 

Comment 5

[Allan Masri]

created new bug 31816 to cover preference freezing on PC. Changed bug to 
indicate that this bug only refers to Mac. 

Comment 6

[Allan Masri]

I installed the CE fonts on 8.6, but this still doesn't work. The Chicago CE and 
Geneva CE fonts do show up in the popup list for Japanese encodings in the font 
preference panel.

Comment 7

[blee]

Font pref won't show anything unless the appropriate font is installed. With 

appropriate font installed, it actully picks the correct font for the language 

group. Works fine in my Mac with Mac03-13-08-M15 bld.

Comment 8

[Allan Masri]

Yes, it seems to be the case that the algorithm being used succeeds in some 
cases and fails in others. My CE fonts are installed, but they are appearing in 
the Japanese encoding popup list, not the Central European.

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

Is that true that you only install the CE font without install the CE script
bundle ? Can you reinstall the font from the MacOS 9 CD ?

Comment 10

[Frank Tang]

this is because the script bundle is not installed. 

Comment 11

[Allan Masri]

This seems to be a problem with how the fonts were installed.