On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 18:01:02 -0600, Larry Hunter wrote: >Folks, > >I'm running epipany 2.14.3 using the “gecko-1.8” backend (as packaged >for a debian distribution, 2.14.3-2). I'm running the latest Debian >unstable distribution on an AMD64 platform (x86_64). > >For some reason, there are missing glyphs in just about all the fonts as >rendered in epiphany. For example, looking at a NY Times page in its >native fonts >(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/washington/27cnd-lobby.html) all the >dashes, quotations, etc. are rendered as missing glyph boxes. I know >the fonts are OK because the same page renders fine with, say, Mozilla >1.7.13 (debian package 1.7.13-0.3). The same glyphs are missing if I >force it to use other fonts (I tried quite a few). > >Any ideas about how to debug (or better, fix) this? This is a well-known "bug". Actually it's not strictly epiphany's fault. The page renders just fine if you switch encoding to windows-1252. Looking at the HTMl source you'll see that the site is wrong in claiming it's using iso-8859-1 (latin-1). This is a very common thing. My personal opinion is that it's becoming more common. AFAIK IE and Firefox (possibly Opera as well) actually treat a claim of iso-8859-1 as windows-1252. If you search through the archives of this list you'll find emails pointing to the Firefox bug reports related to this issue. Another personal opinion of mine: Microsoft should never have been allowed to incorporate a TCP/IP stack in their "operating system". /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org Jabber: magnus therning gmail com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. If you can explain how you do something, then you're very very bad at it. -- John Hopfield
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