Closed Bug 153296 Opened 22 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Better default Hebrew & Arabic fonts on Mac OS X

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED
Future

People

(Reporter: xslf, Assigned: alqahira)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: see comment 11)

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020616 BuildID: 2002061603 (This bug is related to bug 149796 and bug 110655) Mozilla is not using the proper default fonts to render Hebrew pages. It is attempting to use the system font (Lucida Grande) which does not have Hebrew cmap. So, Mozilla ends up using the first font it finds with Hebrew cmap and Hebrew glyphs, leaving the user with no control on the actual font mozilla uses. Depending on the user's system, the actual font used to render Hebrew pages can be really bad- like a fantasy style bold italic font... One workaround is to install lucida grande from OSX beta (which did have Hebrew cmap). But since most users do not have access to it, this is not practicle. When a users adds a "funny" Hebrew font to the system (to use in graphics titles for example) Mozilla uses those fonts. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: just go to any Hebrew page Actual Results: the font used is not related to the default Hebrew font settings Expected Results: should use proper default fonts
Assigning Mac Bidi problem to ftang
Assignee: mkaply → ftang
Blocks: 149796
does MacOS X 10.1.5 support Hebrew locale? or not? What is "THE propert Hebrew" font on MacOS X which all the users will have?
Assignee: ftang → nhotta
I am not sure what do you mean by "hebrew local" in this context. osx has hebrew, but as a unicode keyboard. this is a the case both with 10.1.5 (which oes not have official hebrew supoort) and 10.2 (which does hve official hebrew support). As for fonts, if you go to fonts from classic (that evryone will have) you have raanana, corsiva and arial hebrew. lucida grande has hebrew only in 10.2 and the beta of 10.0. in 10.0-10.1.5 it does not have hebrew cmap (althugh it contains hebrew glyphs)
Frank, we use ATSUI to draw Hebrew. Do we set a user's pref font to ATSUI? http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/gfx/src/mac/nsUnicodeRenderingToolkit.cpp#149
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.2alpha
Target Milestone: mozilla1.2alpha → ---
Another problem even on OS X 10.2, both Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird and Camino will not use Arial - and always use Lucida Grande - which looks rather ugly on titles. I tried Mozilla 1.2.1, 1.3, 1.4, Mozilla Firebird from 2 days ago, Camino 0.6 and 0.7 - and it will not work. You set Arial font (I took this font from Windows and it works finde in other applications) and they use Lucida Grande.
Blocks: 103669
Two things: (1) Working now on bug 120401, patch is nearly ready, and it should also solve this bug, I need to decide which fonts will be the default (Serif, sans-serif and Monospace), you are welcome to choose. (2) Since OS X 10.2, Mozilla uses Lucida Grande which does contain Hebrew cmap (since this version of the OS).
Adding dependence for bug 120401, in fact, this is a duplicate.
Depends on: 120401
(In reply to comment #6) > (1) Working now on bug 120401, patch is nearly ready, and it should also solve this bug, Way to go! > I need to decide which fonts will be the default (Serif, sans-serif > and Monospace), you are welcome to choose. You don't have much choice actually. By default, Mozilla uses Serif fonts for Proportional fonts (due to Bug 95227, this is regardless of language. Monospace fonts should be, well... Monospace. The only thing open for discussion is which fonts should used, not which types. > Adding dependence for bug 120401, in fact, this is a duplicate. You're now assigned to both bugs. Feel free to close one of them as a dupe. Prog.
Assignee: nhottanscp → romano_a
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #6) > > I need to decide which fonts will be the default (Serif, sans-serif > > and Monospace), you are welcome to choose. > > You don't have much choice actually. By default, Mozilla uses Serif fonts for > Proportional fonts (due to Bug 95227, this is regardless of language. Monospace > fonts should be, well... Monospace. The only thing open for discussion is which > fonts should used, not which types. > Heh, I talked about the fonts for each type. > > Adding dependence for bug 120401, in fact, this is a duplicate. > > You're now assigned to both bugs. Feel free to close one of them as a dupe. > Thanks.
OK, I'm not marking this as a duplicate because I gues we want to use Arial Hebrew and Ranana instead of ugly Lucida Grande (which will be the default font after landing the patch for bug 120401). We are not able to use these fonts unless bug 246527 will be fixed.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Depends on: 246527
The patch for bug 120401 has been checked in. Default serif/sans-serif is Lucida Grande, for now (we will be able to fix it, after fixing bug 246527).
Summary: Mozilla does not use correct default fonts for Hebrew on OSX → Better default Hebrew & Arabic fonts on Mac OS X
Whiteboard: see comment 11
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Assignee: bugs.mano → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: zach → layout.bidi
I'll fix this as part of bug 299222. Are Arial Hebrew and Raanana still the preferred Hebrew fonts?
Assignee: nobody → alqahira
Depends on: 299222
Arial Hebrew and Raanana look good to me.
FIXED on trunk by checkin for bug 299222.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Component: Layout: BiDi Hebrew & Arabic → Layout: Text
QA Contact: layout.bidi → layout.fonts-and-text
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