[18872] in Athena Bugs
sgi 8.4.20: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun A Tharuvai)
Thu Mar 15 01:08:12 2001
Message-Id: <200103150607.BAA109450@m66-080-5.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:07:57 -0500
From: Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@MIT.EDU>
System name: m66-080-5.mit.edu
Type and version: IP32 8.4.20
Display type: CRM
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: afterstep
What were you trying to do?
View a webpage in a foreign language (Hindi) which used
dynamic fonts to display characters
http://www.rediff.com/hindi/index.html
What's wrong:
The dynamic fonts were not displayed, leaving
only garbage (random 8bit ascii) in various
character sets.
What should have happened:
The webpage should have been displayed using the
said dynamic font.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Pages with dynamic fonts display properly on
Athena Sun's, but also are unviewable on Athena
Linux machines.
Edit -> Preferences has a "Use Document Specified
Fonts" option, which was enabled.
However, Help -> About Font Displayers lists nothing
on SGI or Linux (it does list a plugin in
/var/athena/infoagents/arch/sun4x_57/MIT-only/netscape/dynfonts )
but has a link to the following URL which claims
that Netscape for UNIX has (or at any rate had) Dynamic
Font support.
http://home.netscape.com/communicator/v4.0/using/dynamicfonts.html
