69057 - Selecting MS Gothic for Japanese encoding bombs out

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 68208

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[erik]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Win98; U)
BuildID:    2001021508

Selecting the MS Gothic font for serif variable-width japanese encoding results 
in a browser crash.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go under "Appearance: Fonts" in Preferences.
2.  Switch Language encoding to Japanese.
3.  Select MS Gothic for the serif variable-width font.
4.  Hit OK.

Actual Results:  MOZILLA caused an invalid page fault in
module GKHTML.DLL at 017f:601ed1cb.
Registers:
EAX=0135b8f0 CS=017f EIP=601ed1cb EFLGS=00010202
EBX=00000000 SS=0187 ESP=0068d1a8 EBP=0068d1b0
ECX=3f55fe9e DS=0187 ESI=0068d1d8 FS=115f
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=01821500 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
3b 8a d4 02 00 00 75 1b 8b 08 83 65 10 00 8d 55 
Stack dump:
80000000 0135b8f0 0068d1e4 601c531b 0135b8f0 01821500 0068d1d8 01821500 01821220 
00000000 3f55fe9e 80004005 00000000 00000001 0135b1a0 0068d208 

Expected Results:  Should have accepted it and let me view Japanese websites 
with the proper characters.

You can get this font from http://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/ie3lpkja.exe

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

there's a known crasher bug for when font prefs are changed --bug 68208.

are you using a talkback build? if not, could you do so and send me the talkback
incident number? if it's the same trace, then this would be a dup of 68208...
thx a lot!

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking dup, since we haven't rec'd info to the contrary from the reporter.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68208 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
your search string to "DuplicateBugsBelongInZahadum".

if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.