[25931] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.11: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken T Takusagawa)
Thu Aug 12 01:15:10 2004
Message-Id: <200408120515.i7C5F6r3002052@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:15:06 -0400
From: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: quiche-lorraine.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.11 (with mkserv)
Display type: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R300 ND [Radeon 9700 Pro]
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: sawfish
What were you trying to do?
View a page that contains Japanese. My favorite test page is
http://distributed.net Across the top of the page is a list
of languages the page is available in, and the third character
is displayed as 8A9E. This is a very common character, too.
What's wrong:
Some of the characters do not display correctly, they are replaced
with little boxes with hexadecimal codes in them.
What should have happened:
All characters should display correctly.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
This is a problem I've seen and heard reported before, always
in the context of antialiased fonts. (First with Firefox in the SIPB
cell, and then with a prepackaged version of mozilla that comes with
Debian.) There are quite a few international students from Japan
here, so they won't be happy to see Japanese web pages broken.
I know no Chinese, but it looks like Traditional Chinese (Big5) is
broken the same way. http://www.chinapage.com/big5/02.html
