54748 - Bogus default font settings for non-Latin languages

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[bobj]

(Build 2000092808 on US Win95.)
When you first open the font prefs dialog, Edit|Preferences...|Fonts,
all encodings default to Times New Roman, Arial and Courier, even CJK
language encodings.

If you select an appropriate font (e.g., MS Gothic for Japanese), the drop
down does now show Times New Roman other inappropriate fonts.

The default should show the first Japanese font that is internally enumerated
for Japanese.

Comment 1

[Erik van der Poel]

By the way, Bob is using US Win95, and our default Japanese font is in Japanese,
but US Windows uses the English font name.

Accepting bug, for Future. Please nominate for RTM, if desired.

Comment 2

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail].

Comment 3

[Frank Tang]

remove Future and reassign to nhotta. 

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

ylong, please check if this still happens.

Comment 5

[nhottanscp]

I cannot reproduce with 6.0 RTM (win32).

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

Verified it doesn't exist in 01-22 Mtrunk build too.  

Comment 7

[bobj]

Using 6.0 RTM on US Win95, the first time I look at the font for a non-Western
language, it shows the same font selections currently selected for Western
(e.g., Times New Roman).  If I try a second time before closing the font pref
dialog, then it shows a font that matches the language (e.g., Arial Unicode).

Comment 8

[Yuying Long]

For my Mac US system with foreign language pack, in RTMja, when first time I 
look at the font for a non-Western language(e.g., Japanese, Chinese, ...), it 
Doesn't shows the same font selections currently selected for Western.

Comment 9

[nhottanscp]

Marking as Future, first time only for a new profile, does not happen with JA RTM.

Comment 10

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to jbetak.

Comment 11

[[e-mail] (away - not reading bugmail)]

accepting...

Comment 12

[[e-mail] (away - not reading bugmail)]

works as of 04/05/2001

Comment 13

[Yuying Long]

Fixed verified on 04-05 trunk build.

Comment 14

[bobj]

Reopening.  Ran trunk build 2001040404 on US Win95.
1. Opened the Edit|Preferences... 
2. Clicked on Appearance|Fonts
3. Opened the Language Encoding dropdown and click once on any of the languages
4. Each showed Times New Roman, Arial & Courier selected for Serif,
   Sans Serif & Monospace respectively
5. Clicked a second time on these language choices: Japanese, Traditional
   Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew or Arabic.  The
   selected fonts for Serif, Sans Serif & Monospace showed as blank.  I
   expected to see the default enumerated font.
6. Clicked a second time on the other the language choices.
   For these, the fonts selected remained the same as in (4.)  This seems
   incorrect for some of these languages.  Does Times New Roman really
   cover Baltic, Turkish etc.?

Also the font choices offered for Unicode is very long and I'd expect it to
only show fonts with a wide range of Unicode.

Comment 15

[bobj]

Additionally, when I closed the pref dialog and reopened it, I could repeat
this behavior.  It was not limited to just the first time in a new profile.

Comment 16

[Yuying Long]

Bob, are you using 04-04 or 04-05 trunk build?  because I believe the fix has 
been checked in yesterday(04-04) afternoon.

Comment 17

[bobj]

Sorry, I did not read the previous comments carefully.  I ran the 4/4 trunk
build (2001040404).  The 4/5 build crashes on launch for me.  I'll try again
with tomorrow's build...

Comment 18

[bobj]

Clarifying previous comment -- The 4/5 build crashes after selecting my
current profile and clicking on the Start Netscape 6 button (not immediately
after launching).

Comment 19

[nhottanscp]

so this is fixed

Comment 20

[bobj]

Yes, this is fixed.  I verified with today's 4/6 trunk build, 2001040604.