Closed
Bug 402671
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
Thai language not recognised in Firefox after Mac OS X 10.5 installed
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: unblocktheplanet, Unassigned)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9 I use Firefox bilingually for English & Thai. Firefox has always been able to display Thai characters. After installing Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), all Thai characters on every page are replaced by question marks. This occurs in all Web pages, files and Webmail. Firefox can't compete internationally without multilingual support. You'll notice I am writing this in Safari! URGENT fix required! Thank you. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Firefox 2. Open a Web page or email with Thai characters 3. Actual Results: Thai characters appear as question marks Expected Results: Beautiful, cursive, intelligible Thai language
Comment 2•17 years ago
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This also affects Hindi. It is only in Firefox 2.0.0.x in MacOS X 10.5.x as far as I can tell. Thai and Hindi work just fine in the latest FireFox 3.0b build (MineField). They also work fine in Safari. For those of us who actually use Thai, this is an extremely frustrating bug. It is odd that only those two languages seem to be affected (though I don't have the fonts to test other similar writing systems like Lao or Cambodian). Other non-alphabet languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, etc.) are not affected by this bug. The Thai and Hindi fonts also do not show up in the font lists of the Font preferences. It seems like a small matter, but also a trivial fix. Please fix it ASAP. Thank you.
Comment 3•17 years ago
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Version - Firefox 2.0.0.11 (and I suspect versions) Hardware - Intel MacBook Pro (and I suspect other Mac hardware) OS - Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard) This bug can be easily confirmed by visiting any web site which uses the Thai alphabet. For example, see the Royal Thai Institute dictionary web site at http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp and view the page using the Thai (ISO 8859-11) encoding.
Comment 4•17 years ago
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Build: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 I'd like to confirm this problem. You'll see ??? in some Thai web page (e.g. http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp); however, you can simply fix the problem by choosing TIS-620/Windows-874/ISO-8859-11 charset from Character Encoding menu. In some Thai webpages, they use TIS-620/Windows-874/ISO-8859-11 for the content but the charset is not set in the webpage's header (e.g. using meta charset). Then, browser will use default charset, which is UTF-8 and the characters on the webpage will be shown as ?????. So, the problem occurs only in webpages without charset setting (e.g. http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp), but for webpages with correct charset setting, (e.g. http://isriya.com/, http://www.manager.co.th/ ), the problem doesn't occur.
Comment 5•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #4) from your description, I guess it is charset auto-detection related. do you still see the same problem with 2.x branch ? if so, i will confirm this bug.
Updated•16 years ago
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Version: unspecified → 2.0 Branch
Comment 6•16 years ago
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Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.2 Firefox version: 2.0.0.12 URL: http://rirs3.royin.go.th/dictionary.asp Running on clean install of OS X and a clean install of Firefox 2.0.0.12 There is no indication of the character encoding in the page source. The initial view shows Japanese characters instead of Thai letters. Switching to any of the following Thai encodings: TIS-620 / ISO 8859-11 / Windows-874 yields a page full of question marks (?) instead of Thai letters. This same web page displays correctly on Firefox 3 Beta 4 when one of the Thai encodings mentioned above is selected.
I observed a similar behavior with other fonts, e.g: IPA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Pulmonic_consonants Sanscrit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatha_yoga In both cases, I see a lot of question marks for the missing characters. This is on a 2.0.0.14 where I have set View > Character Encoding > Auto-detect > Universal. (Safari picks these fonts up without any additional settings.)
I'm glad to say that in Mozilla 3, the two links I posted in #7 are behaving correctly -- no question marks any more! I'm happy now.
Comment 9•16 years ago
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This problem has fixed in Firefox 3. Since Firefox 3 is out, 2.0 branch is an old gecko. This bug should be closed.
Comment 10•16 years ago
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Can I mark this bug as RESOLVED WONTFIX?
Comment 11•16 years ago
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Yes, see #8
Updated•16 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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