85509 - Japanese characters aren't displaying in boldface

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Lynn Webb]

The bold tag doesn't seem to have an effect on Japanese characters in the latest 
builds (60904 and upward). Regardless of the Japanese page I visit, text with 
the <bold> tag does not show up boldfaced. Only Latin-1 characters appear 
boldfaced.

Here are some pages to test:

http://lycos.co.jp
http://home.netscape.com/ja/
http://google.co.jp

I am using a German Win 98SE operating system with a US build, but I have seen 
the same problem on a US OS and a Japanese browser as well.

Comment 1

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Changed QA contact to [e-mail] and added intl keyword.

Lynn, I do not see this problem.  Would you attached the screen shot of what you
see? Thanks.

Comment 2

[Lynn Webb]

OK. I figured out the problem. When I installed the Japanese font that came with 
the build, the browser automatically changed the font in browser preferences to 
MS Gothic and the checkbox for "Allow other fonts in document" was enabled. 
After I disabled this checkbox, I was able to see boldfaced Japanese text. 
Another strange thing is that I cannot select any fonts other than MS Gothic for 
Japanese, even though Bitstream is installed on my system.

Comment 3

[nhottanscp]

Attachment: Screen shot, page with bold Japanese text, "Allow documents to use other fonts" was checked

Comment 4

[nhottanscp]

I used NS6.1 PR1 US and did not see the problem, the option "Allow documents to 
use other fonts" was on.
Please file a separate bug for the bitstream font issue.

Comment 5

[Lynn Webb]

I actually found out that bitstream wasn't on my system at the time. I don't 
think this should have affected the boldface issue, though. I am on a German Win 
98 SE operating system. Every time I install the Japanese build (fresh install), 
I do not see boldface Japanese characters until I uncheck the box in 
Preferences.

Comment 6

[nhottanscp]

Does German Win 98 SE have Japanese fonts?

Comment 7

[Lynn Webb]

It did not, that's why I used the IME fonts that downloaded with the Netscape 
6.1 browser so that I would have MS Gothic on my system.

Comment 8

[nhottanscp]

Windows font issue, reassign to yokoyama, cc to shanjian.

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

could this related to 76848?

Comment 10

[Roy Yokoyama]

Bold works in the native Japanese OS.  It may be something to do with
the font which comes with GlobalIME.  

Comment 11

[Roy Yokoyama]

We can't reproduce this bug anymore.  
(Verified with Jonathan Rubin, iQA, with today's trunk build in his English OS)

I believe the patch I checked in to the trunk for 76848 fixed this bug.
Marking WORKSFORME and making 76848 as a depend.

Comment 12

[Yuying Long]

Verified the fixed on 07-11 trunk build.

Since it has not been checked into branch, I still can see it on 07-13 branch 
build / Win98En and WinNT-En with Japanese font.
(test page http://www.yahoo.co.jp)

However, even on branch build, if you follow by the steps below, then you will 
see the boldface:
1. Go http://www.yahoo.co.jp - if you using a new profile, you won't see the 
boldface characters now.
2. Edit | Preferences | Font, select Japanese.  If you have Japanese font 
installed, then you will see the font will be picked up.
3. Close "OK" to close the preferences.

Result:
You will see the boldface characters now.

I'm going to mark it as verified now.  But Frank or Montse, do we need put it 
into our release note?

Comment 13

[Teruko Kobayashi]

This was not fixed in 7-21-00-0.9.2 branch build.  This was fixed in 0.9.3 
branch build.  I can verify this in 8-7-0.9.3 branch build.

Comment 14

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Since this is reproduciable in 0.9.2 branch, I reopen this and put topembed 
keyword.

Comment 15

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Reassigning to ftang.

Comment 16

[Frank Tang]

check into m92

Comment 17

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I can still reproduce this in 8-20-11-0.9.2 Win32 build.  I reopen this.

Comment 18

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Installer may have some problem.  It did not install the right files.
After I installed it by N6SetupB.exe, I got the right files.
I am testing this, so I changed this as fixed.

Comment 19

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I verified this in 8-22-22-0.9.2ec build.