Description of problem: Some characters aren't displayed using WebKit backend and some look different than in firefox (see attachment). The characters I noticed that are not displayed are from Japanese syllabary, Chinese characters and Korean characters. The characters I noticed that have different look when used in gecko based browsers are from the language displayed in the language list after Alemannisch. I am not sure whether it's Fedora specific issue, so I filled it here. If you think that it is an upstream problem I can file a bug upstream as well. I reproduced it both in Midori and local build of Epiphany svn snapshot (uses WebKit backend). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): WebKit-gtk-1.0.0-0.9.svn32531.fc9 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start Midori (or other WebKit based browser) 2. load wikipedia.org Actual results: Some characters are missing Expected results: Characters are correctly displayed Additional info: Same issue is present when I rebuild the package with r34153 snapshot.
Created attachment 306908 [details] Fonts in WebKit vs. Gecko
> The characters I noticed that have different look when used in gecko based > browsers are from the language displayed in the language list after Alemannisch. That's Amharic with Ethiopic script.
Upstream bugs that describe this issue: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16792 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18546
It has been fixed in upstream, r36309 for FreeType backend: http://cia.vc/stats/project/WebKit/.message/1c236c3
I just pushed SVN 37790 to Rawhide a few hours ago, and I successfully tested it on that Wikipedia page with the freetype backend, and it seems to be fixed for the time being.
(In reply to comment #5) > I just pushed SVN 37790 to Rawhide a few hours ago, and I successfully tested > it on that Wikipedia page with the freetype backend, and it seems to be fixed > for the time being. I can confirm. I've tested it with midori (and on lot more pages than just wikipedia ;-).
WebKit-1.0.0-0.13.svn37790.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/WebKit-1.0.0-0.13.svn37790.fc9
WebKit-1.0.0-0.13.svn37790.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing-newkey update WebKit'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-0608
WebKit-1.0.0-0.13.svn37790.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.