Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:05:30 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> Cc: chromium@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greek characters not displaying on chromium-FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120104180530.GA69733@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <CANcjpOBmFpvGoi_r%2BPnqwq26=Vf-gVQDZ_p70GeWyyKOoTU3tQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120102192158.GA47099@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <CANcjpOBmFpvGoi_r%2BPnqwq26=Vf-gVQDZ_p70GeWyyKOoTU3tQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:15:11PM +0200, George Liaskos wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just noticed that Chromium 16.0.912.63 ??(on FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 amd64, > > and a basic install of Xorg 7.5.1 does not properly display greek characters > > (such as α β and so on) > > > > A simple offending file is this: > > > > ?? ?? ?? ??<!DOCTYPE html> > > ?? ?? ?? ??<body> > > ?? ?? ?? ??α β γ δ σ > > ?? ?? ?? ??</body> > > > > and it does work on Firefox 8.0 on the same machine, and on Chrome on OSX, > > so i really suspect a bug in chromium and not in the X11 configuration. > > > > Attached (and at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/doc/20120102-chromium-greek-fonts.gif ) > > you can see a snapshot of the screen showing how Firefox displays > > the characters correctly, while chromium completely fails on the main > > window (I cannot map the gliphs to anything i know, but did not try > > too hard, either), and fails in a different mode in the "Developer Tools" > > window (three chars out of five are shown correctly). > > > > Any ideas on what could be wrong and a possible temporary workaround ? > > > > cheers > > luigi > > > > Hi! > > It works fine here [1], what encoding do you use to save the text file? it is plain ascii, and since i am using html entities i find it odd that chromium is not getting the correct font while Firefox is. The problem appears to exist on linux as well http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94198 > I am from Greece, so it happens that i browse content with Greek > letters a lot. :) I suppose you have some extra font that gets loaded as part of the localization. > I will try to setup a VM the the minimum packages required to run > chrome, maybe we miss a dependency that happens to be installed anyway > with KDE / Gnome or whatever. > > [1] http://i.imgur.com/2jfOz.png cheers luigi
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