Re: UTF-8 support in Netscape 6.2

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> > How good is Netscape 6.2 for Linux with regard to UTF-8 ?

  Both problems are known and hopefully will be fixed soon.

> Unfortunately, Netscape 6.2 still picks for instance the Cyrillic fonts from
> (probably) JIS X 0208 encoded EastAsian fonts, which have square
> (double-width) glyph spacing designed for ideographs, therefore Russian
> UTF-8 text looks still pretty ugly by default. This is particularly

 This is bug 107217.  (go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
and type in bug#).

> I have not been able to fix this myself. I tried going to
> Preferences|Fonts|Unicode|Monospace and selected there the offered
> "misc-fixed-iso10646", but nothing changed.
>
> I understand if Netscape doesn't use ISO10646-1 fonts everywhere by
> default (due to the unfortunately huge XFontStruct allocations that they
> cause), but I don't understand why explicitly selecting a single
> "misc-fixed-iso10646" size doesn't work. Looks like a bug to me.

   This is bug 91190.

   Jungshik Shin

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