Bug 64520 - Konqueror displays gobley-gook fonts on certain webpages.
Summary: Konqueror displays gobley-gook fonts on certain webpages.
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdebase
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-07 02:08 UTC by Ali-Reza Anghaie
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-09-25 19:35:04 UTC
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Description Ali-Reza Anghaie 2002-05-07 02:08:34 UTC
Description of Problem: 
 
Konqueror/KHTML renders certain webpages with gobley-gook for the font. It seems to be 
KDE-wide as certain unidentifiable fonts in the drop-downs look like gobley-gook. And I 
can't seem to get rid of them. 
 
I've tried changing themes, fonts, etc. Played with a lot of possibilities and nothing 
came of it. Some pages this is readily evident (for me at least): 
 
http://espn.go.com/tennis/index.html 
http://www.sgi.com/products/ 
 
BTW, changing to Kmozilla fixes the problem but isn't preferable (obviously). 
 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
 
 
kdebase-3.0.0-12 
 
How Reproducible: 
 
Always. 
 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Load Konq. 
2. Goto either of those two webpages above. 
3. Try in vain to find a fix. 
4. Hit Bugzilla. 
 
Actual Results: 
 
I see gobley-gook in a lot of areas on the page. 
 
Expected Results: 
 
I'd expect it to render properly. Just like Netscape, Moz, or Galeon.... 
Additional Information:

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-05-07 10:01:02 UTC
Not reproducable here; probably a setup problem. 
 
By any chance, do you permit xfs to use scaled bitmap fonts? 
 
If you have any of the following lines in /etc/X11/fs/config: 
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, 
 
replacing them with the proper 
 
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, 
 
should fix this problem.

Comment 2 Ali-Reza Anghaie 2002-05-07 13:21:30 UTC
Nope. I had unscaled on all those already. Since you pointed me in that
direction I asked a friend to send me a raw version of that file from a clean
Valhalla install. I had some other lines in there:

        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi:unscaled,
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi

That he didn't. So I backed up the file, replaced it with those lines removed.

And *poof*... problem dissapeared. I'm guessing this is NOTABUG but I'm trying
to figure out where those additional lines came from. My Valhalla install was
clean so the only thing I could suspect is OpenOffice maybe?

Anything else you want me to do? Regards, -Ali

Comment 3 Ali-Reza Anghaie 2002-05-07 14:15:20 UTC
This was the original config after the install: 
 
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, 
        /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType, 
        /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, 
        /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/100dpi, 
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi 
 
You'll notice duplicates for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc , 
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc , and /usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/100dpi .. 
 
One with 'unscaled' and the other without. 
 
As far as I can tell all of those fonts belong to RH. 
 
CCing Mike Harris upong his request. 
 
Regards, -Ali 


Comment 4 Ali-Reza Anghaie 2002-05-07 14:36:57 UTC
One last entry. I tried to remove the duplicates and leave all else the same. Still 
b0rked. So the only way I can get it to behave is by removing the ISO and KOI entries. 
 
My config as of now: 
 
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1, 
        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, 
        /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType, 
        /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, 
        /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts, 
        /usr/share/fonts/ja/TrueType 
 
I was thinking OpenOffice might have something to do with it as the config file's 
timestamp matched ~OO~ install. The thing is other folks clean Valhalla installs reflected 
my config file too. 
 
And the ISO and KOI fonts removed are all part of RH RPMs. I guess the RPMs will reveal 
all. 
 
Regards, -Ali 
 
CCing David Sainty too per his request.

Comment 5 Ali-Reza Anghaie 2002-10-01 02:58:46 UTC
Doesn't happen at all in 8.0. Cheers, -Ali


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