Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89081
Greek TrueType fonts for Mozilla are displayed incorrectly
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:07 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Look at the web page in the URL. The TrueType fonts used by Mozilla seem to be missing a number of greek characters, notably Rho, and several accented variants. This could also be caused by bad rendering of existing fonts of course... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.2.1-26 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open mozilla 2. Surf to the URL 3. See words with missing characters Actual Results: "Paranoia" and "Gnosis" are missing characters. Expected Results: The words should have rendered correctly. Additional info:
Looking closer at this, I see that this error may be due to the fact that I use very odd greek unicode characters, such as omega with a tilde above it. This may actually be a rendering bug, that occurs mostly because of mixing low-res and TTF fonts. It still should not happen though.
This issue is not restricted to greek. I have a Latinamerican keyboard and I'm experiencing the same problem when I type accented vowels. I tried to setup mozilla to use Unicode UTF-8 everywhere I found it in Preferences, but that didn't help at all. For reference, the contents of my /etc/sysconfig/i18n are $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG="en_US.UTF-8" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:es_CL.UTF-8:es_CL:es" SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" $
I just tried removing the UTF-8 enconding from /etc/sysconfig/i18n and after that (and restarting my X session) Mozilla would allow me to type accented vowels normally. Unfortunately, there are some issues (mainly interoperating with other systems which are setup for UTF-8) which forced me to reset /etc/sysconfig/i18n to UTF-8. A workaround this issue is to start Mozilla from the command line with a line like the following: $ LANG=en_US mozilla ^^^^^ Put your language here This will also make Mozilla behave with regards to accents. From this diagnostics, I think this is a Mozilla issue rather than a Redhat issue, but I will leave that to the Redhat experts.
If *typing* characters is your problem, that is probably unrelated to this issue which is mostly about *displaying* certain characters. (UTF-8 in i18n is the cause of several other problems as well, such as accessing old filesystems based on ISO 8859-1 which is what is used for en_US, but that is not the issue here.)
It's hard to say. The default encoding can affect how some web pages are rendered because it's going to choose a different font based on what your setting is.
This works for me in Fedora Core 2 test 1 w/Mozilla 1.6. Let's close it!