Font display on Non-English sites

[René Ladan]

On 14-11-2012 07:32, Yuri wrote:
> Special unicode characters are also not displayed properly.
> Even in the google results character U+200D (‍ ‍ ZERO WIDTH
> JOINER) shows as a box.
> This is some serious regression. Something similar happened before, over
> a year ago, but was fixed back then.
> Developer Tools/Elements also shows this problem.
>
> Maintainers should take a look. I think you should roll the version back
> to previous until regression is fixed.
>
I'm also seeing this with LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 (10-amd r242658, chromium 
built with gcc46). But rolling the version back is highly unlikely due 
to the security vulnerabilities (shown at
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/11/stable-channel-release-and-beta-channel.html 
). You can do a local rollback though, pulling an older version of the 
port from an archive (CVS/SVN/web) and rebuild it.

I noticed midori-0.4.7 which uses webkit-gtk2-1.4.3_1 from ports works 
fine with LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 (characters Chinese spam showing correctly).
It also works fine with chrome-23.0.1271.64 on Ubuntu 12.04 with 
LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8

René
>
> On 11/13/2012 21:54, Yuri wrote:
>> I also see this. On its face this looks like a regression from
>> 22.x.x.x version which showed Japanese in the same environment.
>> chrome shows the font-family in computed style as:
>> メイリオ, Meiryo, Tahoma, Verdana, 'ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3', 'Hiragino
>> Kaku Gothic Pro', Osaka, 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', 'MS PGothic', sans-serif;
>> chrome goes through the list of fonts in the style attempting to match
>> the font, and it may be that none of them matches.
>> It's hard to tell whether it really should or should not show Japanese
>> with the fonts installed on the system.
>>
>> As a possible workaround you may try installing fonts from
>> japanese/font-* ports. This will work if the problem is a genuine lack
>> of Japanese font, not some other random bug.
>> Maybe Japanese users will have a better perspective for this problem.
>
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