43395 - Japanese fonts cannot be set in User Defined Character coding

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[Teruko Kobayashi]

When you set the User defined font to Japanese fonts, MS Gothic or other, 
the characters are not displayed as the fonts after you change the menu 
View|Character coding->More->User Defined.

Steps of reproduce
1. Open Preferences dialog
2. In Preferences dialog, Select Fonts from Appearance category,
   Choose User Defiend in Fonts for.
   Change every fonts to "MS Gothic" and change the size of the fonts to "24"
   Then, close the preferences dialog
3. Go to above URL
4. Select menu View|Character coding->More->User Defined

The font size is changed to "24", but the font is not changed to "MS Gothic".
So, the Japanese characters are displayed as garbage.

Tested 2000-06-21-08 Win32 and Mac build.

Comment 1

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I would like to nominate this bug for beta2 because User-Define is beta2 
criteria.

Comment 2

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Putting on [NEED INFO] radar. PDT needs to know impact to user and risk of fix 
to make a call on this bug. Erik, please let us know what you think.

Comment 3

[Erik van der Poel]

Impact to user: The User Defined feature is only used by users who have
documents and fonts for an encoding that we don't already support. In Netscape6,
we support a lot of encodings, so this feature affects a relatively small
number of users. For the users that are affected, it appears to work for some
fonts (e.g. the Bengali font I downloaded the other day) and not on others (e.g.
the Japanese font mentioned in this bug report).

Risk of fix: I don't really know what the fix would be, but it would be isolated
to the User Defined code, so it would be low risk.

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I tested this in 2000-06-29-08 Win32 build.  I found that this does not work
not only Japanese font but also Chinese and Korean fonts.

GulimCh, Mingliu, Ms Hei, Ms Gothic, Ms P Gothic, MS Mincho, and MS Mincho 
do not work.

Tahama, Bitstream, Comic Sans MS, Lucida Console works fine.

Comment 5

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Not critical to beta2.  Adding "nsbeta3" keyword 
for consideration of a fix for that milestone. 

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

remove nsbeta3. User defined is used for simple single byte languages. We 
already support Japanese. Is there are a NEED to use Japanese in the 
user-defined ?

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

There are virtually no multibyte **private fonts** in
circulation which would require the use of User-defined.
All the fonts I am aware of can be used under the multibyte
encodings we support. 
User-defined are meant for fonts which do not use the encodings 
or charset tables we support and virtually all such fonts are
for one-byte languages and are for encodings we don't list
in our charset menu. 
We should mark this bug as Wontfix.

Comment 8

[Frank Tang]

Mark this bug as won't fix since we already support Japanese and there are no 
need for them to use Japanese font with USer defined

Comment 9

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as Wontfix.

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

*** Bug 77786 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***