81368 - [BiDi] Some letters appear to be chosen from a different font

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Arthur Barrett]

From a Yiddish user:

the nightly build:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010516

Some letters appear to be chosen from a different font, in particular, the
ones peculiar to Yiddish such as HEBREW LIGATURE YIDDISH DOUBLE VAV seems
to be taken from a different-sized font.  It appears that for Hebrew,
Mozilla is using font misc-fixed-iso8859-8 at 16 pixels for variable-width
and 13 pixels for fixed-width.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to ftang.

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

katakai- can someone from your team look at this Linux Hebrew GTK issue. Please 
work with [e-mail] with this

Comment 3

[Masaki Katakai]

Prabhat, can you take this?

Comment 4

[Arthur Barrett]

[e-mail] (Simon Montagu) on the 
netscape.public.mozilla.i18n newsgroup posted this

>
> I think this is a general problem in Mozilla, when a glyph is missing
> in the current font, but available in some other font on the system. 
>

Comment 5

[kill this account]

to debug this it would help:

 1) to know what the encoding was:
    was there any meta/http tag
    what the charset menu indicated

 2) to have a simple html file that shows the problem

 3) to know what fonts are on the system

 4) to know what the mozilla font settings were

 5) to have the terminal output when displaying this page with environment 
    variable NS_FONT_DEBUG set to 4

Comment 6

[Masaki Katakai]

Arthur, is it possible to provide the screen shot?
Also I want to know the info which locale the user is using.

Prabhat, can you also see this problem on your environment?

Comment 7

[kill this account]

it would help if we knew which fonts were being used
please 

1) set the environment variable NS_FONT_DEBUG to 5 and capture the output
(ie: ./mozilla | tee moz.log) to a file and then attach to this bug 

2) run xlsfonts, capture the output and attach to this bug 

Comment 8

[Masaki Katakai]

Prabhat, are you seeing this problem on your environment?

Comment 9

[Andreas Becker]

Changing QA contact to [e-mail].

Changing component to "Bidi..." and adding intl keyword.

Comment 10

[Prabhat Hegde]

hi masaki, sorry for delay;

No, i do not see this problem in my environment; Could the user provide
his font selection? Specially font.name.monospace.he?

I tested with the following font on Solaris:
"-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-140-72-72-m-70-iso8859-8"

Comment 11

[Masaki Katakai]

Thanks, Prabhat.

I also could not reproduce this problem on my environment.

[e-mail], can you also try this ?

If works, I want to mark this as FORKSFORME.

Thanks.

Comment 12

[Arthur Barrett]

Sorry I've been away - it's a long story.  I'll pass the requests along to the 
user and get some response.

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

make a screen shot, please

Comment 14

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass-move all BiDi Hebrew and Arabic qa to me, [e-mail]. 
Thank you Gilad for your service to this component, and best of luck to you 
in the future.

Sholom. 

Comment 15

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Is this a dupe of bug 49669? See especially
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49669#c8

Comment 16

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

WONTFIX X Corefonts bug