70414 - Table right-alignment out of border in Far East Windows 2000

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Wu Yongwei]

The following bug is reproducible in both Mozilla 0.7 and 0.8:

When I go to the Mozilla home page in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows
2000 (SP1), the top centre does not display right. While it should be

+---------------------------------------------+
|Mozilla News                 23 February 2001|
+---------------------------------------------+

it is now

+---------------------------------------------+
|Mozilla News                   23 February 20|01
+---------------------------------------------+

The screen shot can be seen at
  http://www.netstd.com/knids/mozilla.png

However, when I switched the character coding to Simplified Chinese or
Traditional Chinese, it went right. After I checked it more deeply, I found that
it is font related. All choosable serif font for Western encoding would not
render the text right, while all other combination I tested would do.

Hope these might help.

Comment 1

[Wu Yongwei]

After a system crash (really unfortunate for me, but not for the bug), I found
that the bug arose only AFTER I set the variable-width fonts for Simplified
Chinese to my system Chinese font (simsun).

Comment 2

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

QA contact update

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 4

[anthonyd]

WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

marking verified

Comment 6

[Wu Yongwei]

Sorry guys but the bug is always there. I just verified that it exists on 
Mozilla 1.0 and Netscape 7.0 PR1. By default fresh setup on SIMPLIFIED CHINESE 
version of Windows 2000.

It's an international-font-related bug. Don't test it on non-Chinese Windows. 
Have a look at my note on 2001-3-5. Current setup will automatically (which is 
good) set fonts for the Chinese character set so the problem will appear by 
default.

Comment 7

[Wu Yongwei]

With some more tests I found some interesting things. And a workaround.

When changing the serif font for Simplified Chinese, the page layout (of 
www.mozilla.org) changed a little -- strange since the current code page is ISO-
8859-1 instead of GB2312. I chose to change the standard serif font of GB2312 
from Simsun to another (FZSTK in fact), and the table alignment problem is 
gone. And every different Chinese font seems to affect the page layout in a 
subtly different way, some lessening the layout problem, some heightening the 
cell, and so on.

I really wonder why an ISO-8859-1 page should be affected by the font setting 
for GB2312....

Comment 8

[Wu Yongwei]

I installed Netscape 7.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; 
rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0) and was happy to find the problem gone. 
The bug had been there in Netscape 7.0 PR1. Just FYI.

Comment 9

[Bernd]

Reporter could you please close the bug if it is wfm?

Comment 10

[Wu Yongwei]

Mozilla 1.3 for Windows now works in the Chinese version of Windows 2000.