314067 - Some greek letters are misinterpreted by Mozilla under LInux.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050925 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge5)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050925 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge5)

For example the letter "ά" is misinterpreted under Linux.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the Link http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%CF%8C
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

> For example the letter "ά" is misinterpreted under Linux.

Can you please explain this in more detail? And what has the Google link to
do with this? The link shows the char U+03CC, which is "ό" by the way...

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

Reporter: If you do not provide futher information (see comment 1) I will close this report as WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Frank]

Here is a screenshot where you can see that Firefox does show some other letters (Korean?) instead of the Greek letters.
http://gayscout.com/temp/screenshot.png

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

That isn't Korean, that's the fallback that xft uses when you have no font on your system that can represent a particular character. It shows the Unicode code point in a box, like this:

|--|
|03|
|CC|
|--|

Try installing the ttf-mgopen package (also available from http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/)

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

Since the problem here seems to be missing fonts (or fonts missing particular characters) on the user's machine, I am now resolving this as INVALID.