35551 - Central european charsets, ISO-8859-2 don't work

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Richard Zach]

Pages with <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-2"> don't show up in ISO-8859-2.

To reproduce:
Go to http://dmoz.org/World/Polska/

Actual result: strike-L accent-n cedille-e etc. are shown as empty squares
Expected result: switch charset

Similar prolem with http://dmoz.org/World/Czech/Zpravodajstvi/ which is in
WINDOWS-1250.

This may be a charset selection problem, or a font problem.  I see the page fine
in NS 4.7, so I do have the right fonts.  CC erik anyway.

Linux build 2000.04.09.09.

Comment 1

[Erik van der Poel]

Hi zach, would you please send me in separate email the output of xlsfonts?

Comment 2

[Erik van der Poel]

Attachment: xlsfonts output (all iso8859-2 fonts seem to be scalable)

Comment 3

[Erik van der Poel]

I just tried it with a build I created today on a machine with ISO-8859-2 fonts,
and the strike-L, etc show up, instead of drawing boxes. Marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 4

[Richard Zach]

Erik, what should I do? Still don't see any haceks on today's build?

Comment 5

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I tested this in 2000042509 Linux commercial build.  
I looked at http://babel/tests/browser/charset/iso-8859-2.html ( this page has 
charset meta info.) I cannot see any characters in A5, AD, B2, B5, C0 E0, and EF 
in the table.  
I tried to see this in Communicator 4.x.  After I change the font preference to 
Fixed font, this page is displayed correctly.
I will attach the table. 
                                                              
[e-mail], please compare your result.  

Comment 6

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Attachment: test table

Comment 7

[Erik van der Poel]

I believe this was fixed with my checkin before the M16 deadline (5/16). I
would like the reporter to verify this. Thanks!

Comment 8

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Richard Zach, please verify this.                                                                             

Comment 9

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Since Richard did not reply, I tested this in 2000-05-31-08 Linux build.

The result is the same as before.                                               
                        
I looked at http://babel/tests/browser/charset/iso-8859-2.html ( this page has 
charset meta info.) I cannot see any characters in A5, AD, B2, B5, C0 E0, and EF 
in the table.  

Comment 10

[Erik van der Poel]

This turned out to be a problem with some iso8859-2 fonts on Teruko's machine.
They are missing some glyphs. The fonts were in the Type1 directory, and the
fonts.dir file contained lines for iso8859-2. So the fonts.dir file has a bug.

Richard, please mark this bug VERIFIED if you agree that the original problem
has been fixed.

Comment 11

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 12

[Richard Zach]

Oops, sorry I missed this.  I'm in Europe now, far away from my machine. I'll
try to score a computer somewhere, install Linux and Mozilla, and try it.

Comment 13

[Richard Zach]

Ok, I'm back.  Tested with Linux build 2000-07-20-09, all the glyphs are there.

What I see though is that Mozilla seems to use a different font for the 8859-2
glyphs than for the ASCII stuff: They look sans-serif to me, while the ASCII is
in Times.

Differnt bug? Mark this verified?