40587 - Can't use X LucidaTypewriter font

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[tenthumbs]

LucidaTypewriter is one of the standard X fonts. With a 0524 build I can select
it in the font pref dialog and Mozilla writes this line:
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "b&h-lucidatypewriter-iso8859-1");
into prefs.js but Mozilla never uses it.

A little tracing shows that Mozilla does this:

 ............REQUEST: ListFonts
     sequence number: 04fe
      request length: 000c
           max-names: ffff
   length of pattern: 0025
             pattern: "-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-lucidatypewriter"

which is clearly wrong. I'm guessing the ampersand in the foundry name is
confusing Mozilla.

Eric, maybe?

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

odd, i had no problems changing to it. Same entry got entered in prefs.js and it
displays fine as well. (I have it aliases in fonts.alias in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi - i assume you have too however..)

Comment 2

[tenthumbs]

I have the standard X aliases and they just map non-xlfd names to the xlfd
equivalents.

You have to be careful about "appears to work" and "works." I been bitten
before. You really need a tool like xmon to see exactly what's happening.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

well i was just judging from which font it changed to after i changed prefs, and
it was lucidiatypewriter. I kept using it and had no problems. Perhaps i
misunderstand this bug.

Comment 4

[tenthumbs]

Win a few, lose most of them! I had a user.js file in the profile with some old
font prefs. Renaming it fixed the problem.

There's at least one bug here but I have no idea what it is. Marking this one as
invalid.