www-client/firefox-3.6.15 renders this perfectly. www-client/chromium-10.0.648.133 shows almost every character as an empty rectangle, although the page title is rendered correctly somehow. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.view a web page with asian fonts 2. 3. Actual Results: asian characters are shown as empty rectangles Expected Results: proper characters Fonts installed: media-fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/dejavu media-fonts/encodings media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1 media-fonts/font-alias media-fonts/font-arabic-misc media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi media-fonts/font-bh-ttf media-fonts/font-bh-type1 media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1 media-fonts/font-cronyx-cyrillic media-fonts/font-cursor-misc media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc media-fonts/font-dec-misc media-fonts/font-ibm-type1 media-fonts/font-isas-misc media-fonts/font-jis-misc media-fonts/font-micro-misc media-fonts/font-misc-cyrillic media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic media-fonts/font-misc-meltho media-fonts/font-misc-misc media-fonts/font-mutt-misc media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc media-fonts/font-screen-cyrillic media-fonts/font-sony-misc media-fonts/font-sun-misc media-fonts/font-util media-fonts/font-winitzki-cyrillic media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1 media-fonts/freefont-ttf media-fonts/freefonts media-fonts/intlfonts media-fonts/liberation-fonts media-fonts/proggy-fonts media-fonts/tengwar-fonts media-fonts/terminus-font media-fonts/unifont media-fonts/urw-fonts
Created attachment 266117 [details] screenshot of example page in chromium
Created attachment 266119 [details] example page in firefox
Please paste your `emerge --info' into a comment.
Created attachment 266157 [details] emerge --info emerge --info attached. Was too large for a comment.
I had the same issue on my system. From the looks of it, Firefox is rendering the text using a bitmap font; you can tell from the the ragged edges. I made an educated guess and installed a truetype CJK font (bitstream-cyberbit), which allowed Chromium to correctly render the page. I'm guessing that Chromium just doesn't know how to render bitmap fonts.
I don't have this problem (chromium 11.0.690.0 (76722)) See my screenshot. My font config just forbids bitmap fonts (too ugly): /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf -> ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf I'm not sure if this is what solve the problem. Installed fonts: media-fonts/corefonts media-fonts/dejavu media-fonts/encodings media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1 media-fonts/font-alias media-fonts/font-arabic-misc media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi media-fonts/font-bh-ttf media-fonts/font-bh-type1 media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1 media-fonts/font-cronyx-cyrillic media-fonts/font-cursor-misc media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc media-fonts/font-dec-misc media-fonts/font-ibm-type1 media-fonts/font-isas-misc media-fonts/font-jis-misc media-fonts/font-micro-misc media-fonts/font-misc-cyrillic media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic media-fonts/font-misc-meltho media-fonts/font-misc-misc media-fonts/font-mutt-misc media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc media-fonts/font-screen-cyrillic media-fonts/font-sony-misc media-fonts/font-sun-misc media-fonts/font-util media-fonts/font-winitzki-cyrillic media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1 media-fonts/freefont-ttf media-fonts/inconsolata media-fonts/sil-gentium media-fonts/urw-fonts
Created attachment 266343 [details] Chromium asian fonts screenshot without described problem
emerging bitstream-cyberbit fixed the issue for me.
Reproduced here, installed fonts: # eix -I -C media-fonts --only-names media-fonts/dejavu media-fonts/encodings media-fonts/font-alias media-fonts/font-cursor-misc media-fonts/font-misc-misc media-fonts/font-util media-fonts/liberation-fonts media-fonts/urw-fonts Julien, could you please do a little test? Try removing all fonts not included in the above list, and see if the problem reproduces. If it does, try adding fonts one by one and identify which contains needed characters. After identifying it, remove it too, and try other ones, because there might be multiple fonts containing the characters we want. See also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-835345-highlight-chromium.html, people are reporting multiple fonts that fix the problem: media-fonts/arphicfonts media-fonts/ja-ipafonts media-fonts/ipamonafont media-fonts/bitstream-cyberbit I have no idea which of those are worse or better, or which ones we should recommend in the ebuild. Any feedback is appreciated.
After having uninstalled all, none of my emerged fonts really fixed the problem: I hadn't problem because I have droid fonts present in my ~/.fonts directory. Emerging media-fonts/droid is also a solution.
Okay, so now the candidate list is: media-fonts/arphicfonts media-fonts/ja-ipafonts media-fonts/ipamonafont media-fonts/bitstream-cyberbit media-fonts/droid I've tested that those fonts work both with and without X USE flag enabled.
CJK team, can I ask for your help? It seems that www-client/chromium would need a runtime dependency on additional fonts to properly render http://soc16ps.car.coocan.jp/kurumaya/kuru032.html (and possibly other pages). I've gathered and tested some font package names that make the page display without "unknown character" ugliness. However, I don't actually understand the page content, so I have no idea whether all those fonts are good, or whether we need a different set for different pages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). For example, I've tried some Korean fonts (alee-fonts, unfonts, unfonts-extra), but some characters displayed as "unknown". CJK team, could you suggest the next course of action? Updated candidate list: media-fonts/arphicfonts media-fonts/ja-ipafonts media-fonts/ipamonafont media-fonts/bitstream-cyberbit media-fonts/droid media-fonts/takao-fonts media-fonts/wqy-microhei media-fonts/wqy-zenhei
I've added an elog message with some font suggestions. If there are additional fonts that should be added to that list (I'm pretty sure that's the case), please file new bugs.
