92189 - Unix Printing: Euro Sign is printed out as a square

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[ji]

Build: linux 07/24 branch
OS: RH6.2-J

Euro sign can be displayed on browser, composer and mail, but it's printed out
as a square.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open composer.
2. set character encoding to iso-8859-15
3. Enter a string containing the euro sign "?"
4. Print out this page, you can see the euro sign is not printed out correctly.

Comment 1

[nhottanscp]

Can that be printed by other apps?

Comment 2

[nhottanscp]

Reassign to bstell.

Comment 3

[Yuying Long]

I can print it on Mac9.0-Ja and WinME-Ja but RedHat6.2-Ja.

Comment 4

[kill this account]

did this *ever* work on Unix/Linux?

Comment 5

[Keith Briscoe]

Exactly what is Mozilla doing about this issue?  Please excuse me if what I'm
about to write is old news.

I'm assuming this is the problem: ISO-8859-x actually does not contain a glyph
for the Euro symbol at all.  Windows-1252 fonts are the same as ISO-8859-1 with
the exception of positions 0x80-0x9F, where MS substitutes the control codes at
those locations with typographer's fonts, the Euro symbol, and some other symbols.

Thus, documents created with a Euro symbol (or typographer's fonts) on a machine
using Windows-1252 encoded fonts will look different on a platform using ISO
standard fonts, unless there's some sort of process that substitutes Unicode
symbols for 8-bit symbols going on (which would be/is a lovely workaround).

I was actually quite surprised to see the Euro symbol appear onscreen in Linux
when there was no Euro glyph at that position in the 8-bit fonts I was using.  I
assume whatever substitution happens just before displaying the text onscreen
just needs to happen before the text is printed as well.

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

Is this postscript printing or xprint printing?
The problem is we may have ISO-8859-15 font or Unicode font for screen but the 
font int he printer may only have ISO-8859-1 fonts.
cc katakai

Comment 7

[Frank Tang]

can we print it on 4.x ?
can we print the euro sign from any Apps?

Comment 8

[Yuying Long]

On my Linux RH6.2-Ja, it can not be display on N4.7 properly even in browser.

I haven't able to print it on other apps so far.

Comment 9

[kill this account]

who owns Linux/Unix printing?

Comment 10

[Masaki Katakai]

Please assign to me.

Comment 11

[kill this account]

--> ftang

Comment 12

[Frank Tang]

bulk move NEW FUTURE bug to ASSIGN

Comment 13

[Herald van der Breggen]

It is possible to print the Euro sign when printing a postscript file with euro
signs (generated by latex or so). When printing witt Mozilla to (postscript)
file, the euro sign can be found as a square. So it looks like translation to
postscript  is not done right by Mozilla (or something is wrong with fonts?).
BTW I use RH7.2

Anyway, for European people this is like a browser not able to print dollars for
Americans. So, a solution would we very very welcome!

Comment 14

[Herald van der Breggen]

I just checked KDE's Konqueror: this can print the Euro sign without any
problem. Maybe it's possible to borrow some code ;-)

Comment 15

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by patch in bug 100328

Comment 16

[Yuying Long]

Euro sign still print out as square on 12-04 trunk build.

Comment 17

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by bug 100328 checkin.

Comment 18

[Yuying Long]

Mark it as verified - euro sign prints fine on 01-08 trunk build on linux RH7.1.