Bug 70409

Summary:	Mozilla Firefox doesn't display unicode characters
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bruno Lustosa <bruno>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.lustosa.net/gentoo/utf8.png
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bruno Lustosa 2004-11-07 20:25:55 UTC

Firefox will display a small square with 4 digits instead of the corresponding unicode character. You can see what I mean in the image on the URL.
Additionally, I didn't find any related USE flag to change:

[ebuild   R   ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_rc2  -debug +gnome +gtk2 -ipv6 +java -ldap -mozdevelop -moznoxft -mozxmlterm +truetype -xinerama -xprint

I don't think any of them are related to utf-8.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a japanese website
Actual Results:  
square characters

Expected Results:  
japanese characters

emerge info output:

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.5
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r6
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/
http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dga
encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam
pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd
tetex tiff truetype unicode x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

Comment 1 Matt Taylor 2004-11-07 21:13:38 UTC

You need to install japanese fonts in X.  Then firefox will display the characters.

USE="nls cjk" emerge xorg-x11 kochi-substitute

Then restart xfs and X

Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-14 17:26:40 UTC

Thanks for the tip, Matt.