Closed Bug 20959 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

ugly Cyrillic font in Unix Mozilla

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(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

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VERIFIED FIXED

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(Reporter: sher07, Assigned: erik)

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Dear Mozilla: [Using Linux-Mandrake 6.1] We are all very excited about the forthcoming Mozilla Alpha and Netscape 5.0 beta. And we are all aware of the fact that you are literally working around the clock to get the browser(s) ready for prime time. I certainly do NOT wish to make your burden even greater. On the other hand, this may be very easy to fix. I would like to recommend that you replace the current Cyrillic font used in Russian and Ukrainian with, preferably, a Times or Times New Roman Cyrillic font or else replace it with the Cyrillic font now used in Netscape 4.x. The one you have now in Mozilla is not only ugly but makes reading literally an agony. I think you would understand if you had to read an English text in that kind of font. Speaking as a Russian translator, I implore you to please consider replacing this horrible Cyrillic font with a professional one. The one in Netscape 5.0 would be great. Please think about it. Listen to your users. We all want the new Mozilla and Netscape to be professional, powerful browsers that will stop the Evil Empire. And appearance, in this case, of the font in Linux, is, all things being equal, an important element of an aesthetically pleasing experience. Please give us Russian scholars a professional Cyrillic font we can be proud of and make full use of. Thank you. Benjamin
Assignee: ftang → erik
Summary: Cyrillic font in Mozilla → Cyrillic font in Mozilla
I think this will be solved once erik finish the per charset font fallback list and font preference work.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M15
Please send me the output of xlsfonts in private email: xlsfonts | mail erik@netscape.com Thanks. Also, what is the name of the font that you want to use?
*** Bug 21351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Dear Bugzilla: I have been trying my best to find the fonts directory in Netscape 4.7 on my Linux-Mandrake system. I have even sent out a message concerning it to the Mandrake list. Hopefully, someone will help me find the name of the Cyrillic font in Netscape 4.7 for Linux. Please take a look at the Russian font used on these two sites (Win 1251 and KOI-8 codes) http://www.websher.net/sp/kozw.html http://www.websher.net/sp/koz8.html The font is identical. Please do your best to identify the font in question. If I find out the name, I'll let you know. Benjamin
Moving all of my M15s to M16. Please add comments if you disagree.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
*** Bug 27058 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi Benjamin, I'm about to attach (to this bug report) a list of Cyrillic font names that I extraced from the xlsfonts output that you sent me. I'd like you to try them one by one in xfd, using command lines like this: xfd -fn '-cronyx-times-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-64-koi8-r' & And then please tell me which one(s) were ugly, and which one(s) were OK. Thx.
Summary: Cyrillic font in Mozilla → ugly Cyrillic font in Unix Mozilla
Fixed by adding support for the foundry field and setting the default fonts for Cyrillic to the cronyx fonts (times, helvetica and courier).
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Received the following email from Benjamin. Marking VERIFIED. Subject: Cyrillic in new Mozilla looks good! Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 04:27:16 -0500 From: Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net> Organization: Sher Publishers To: erik@netscape.com Dear Erik: Just checked my Russian test web site in Mozilla nightly build of May 25, 2000 (still waiting for M16). The Cyrillic looks great, just like in Netscape 4.x. Very pleased. All my thanks for a job well done. Hope to see it in your Netscape Beta 2. Thanks so much again. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher sher07@bellsouth.net Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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