Bug 77348

Summary:	Miscellaneous Unicode problems in Konqui
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Chelsea Buchanan & Keith Briscoe <cheeth>
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	RedHat Enterprise Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description Chelsea Buchanan & Keith Briscoe 2004-03-12 04:36:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:          Linux

I've noticed some problems with Unicode support in Konqui, so I made a test page to show some of the problems.  Please note that this page is really only about basic glyph display, not Bidi support or more complicated features.

http://www.nwlink.com/~cheeth/bugs/unicode_test.html

The test URL should show some random characters in various scripts, next to an image of what they should look like (at least according to Mozilla!).  There is a link to the right where you can download free TrueType fonts containing these glyphs.

Another useful URL is: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/unicode_samples.html

Comment 1 Ken Deeter 2004-04-22 05:57:53 UTC

This could be a qt font substitution problem. Qt 3.x so far isn't very smart about how to do font substitution, so sometimes even if you have the fonts installed, they will not show up.

For such a page, you should be able to see the glyphs for the font that is your primary font (in the settings dialog), though this is not really a solution.

Comment 2 Chelsea Buchanan & Keith Briscoe 2004-04-22 07:26:03 UTC

I've tried this and it doesn't seem to fix this problem.  It's likely a problem at the Qt level (the same problem happens in KWord), but I can't say exactly where.

Comment 3 Munzir Taha Obeid 2004-06-13 23:36:58 UTC

For the Arabic I could see the characters clearly in KDE 3.2 (Mandrake 10). Are you sure it's not a font issue in your machine? How can I test it more?

Comment 4 Munzir Taha 2004-06-16 16:34:52 UTC

No, no, I can't see them properly. Now, I believe its a bug and not a font issue.

Comment 5 Munzir Taha 2004-06-30 23:57:54 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2004-11-12 15:42:36 UTC

I believe it's the very same problem as #47682 - Qt simply doesn't fall back to fonts

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47682 ***