Shoji Matsumoto Reporter
	Description • 23 years ago

0.9.5 on Linux.

problem:

In MANY pages in Japan, <font face="?? ???"> are used very   often, but
ignored on Unix. 

cause:

Mozilla searches -*-<family-name>-*, but XLFD is not allow -*-?? ???-*.

solution:

Now, familyname aliases are hardcoded in nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp.
ex) arial = helvetica, courie new = courier, times new roman = times

They should be configurable to read prefs or configuration files, so many
distributors can modify fontfamily.aliases to match their system font
configurations.

	Shoji Matsumoto Reporter
	Comment 1 • 23 years ago

"face" above is "MS P Mincho" in Japanese.
U+ff2d U+ff33 U+3000 U+ff30 U+660e U+671d.

	pocemit
	Comment 2 • 23 years ago

confirming.
any thoughts on the implementation of this?
(Unicode config file? prefs.js? GUI?)

	Shoji Matsumoto Reporter
	Comment 3 • 23 years ago

I think a configuration file in UTF-8 (or capable with Unicode escape) is enough.
GUI is not necessary. 

configuration file is very simple. It only can generate gFamilyNameTable[] in
nsFontMetricsGTK.cpp on startup, or read in InitGlobals() and add
key-value(original-alias) to gAliases.

If .properties allows UTF-8 (or Unicode escaped string) as key,
res/unixfontaliases.properties is good choice :).
Or XML <fontalias name="[UTF8str]" xname="[XLFD family"> ? 

	rubydoo123
	Comment 4 • 23 years ago

placing enhancement request into future bucket

	kill this account
	Comment 5 • 23 years ago

this looks like a dup of 80687

	pocemit
	Comment 6 • 23 years ago

duplicate, 80687 already had some discussion on this

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80687 ***

	pocemit
	Comment 7 • 23 years ago

Oh, and just to make sure, most web designers using:
a) SJIS
b) "?? ???" as an actual font name

should be shot anyway.