From owner-freebsd-chromium@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 15:37:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chromium@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39535106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:37:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from geo.liaskos@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f47.google.com (mail-qw0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6608FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:37:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadb17 with SMTP id b17so12194180qad.13 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:37:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QuSTS+zDazORgNg6rJYRUWl5e3y/ZOWK6FDy1kBsWMw=; b=BTCFlvvW6pVTqdmstA9fP9dgaAi38EUTSvhb1rtqVdCHrbrapoKGp/gBPMCRF/Dphf CKIyy5ksnW0/7+ViHkk+y+3vZbMKk/bi4uozY4eQviiSJVO29bAfpPYP4gdXDpVhqaUt jjZVoPQuJP9wo/1Hm2LkCsi2A2nxE4iU+Kl4c= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.202.130 with SMTP id fe2mr11898655qab.16.1325690111899; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.224.208.195 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:15:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120102192158.GA47099@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20120102192158.GA47099@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:15:11 +0200 Message-ID: From: George Liaskos To: Luigi Rizzo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: chromium@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greek characters not displaying on chromium-FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chromium@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Chromium issues List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:37:25 -0000 On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > I just noticed that Chromium 16.0.912.63 =C2=A0(on FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 amd64, > and a basic install of Xorg 7.5.1 does not properly display greek charact= ers > (such as α β and so on) > > A simple offending file is this: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0α β γ δ σ > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 > > and it does work on Firefox 8.0 on the same machine, and on Chrome on OSX= , > so i really suspect a bug in chromium and not in the X11 configuration. > > Attached (and at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/doc/20120102-chromium-gr= eek-fonts.gif ) > you can see a snapshot of the screen showing how Firefox displays > the characters correctly, while chromium completely fails on the main > window (I cannot map the gliphs to anything i know, but did not try > too hard, either), and fails in a different mode in the "Developer Tools" > window (three chars out of five are shown correctly). > > Any ideas on what could be wrong and a possible temporary workaround ? > > cheers > luigi > Hi! It works fine here [1], what encoding do you use to save the text file? I am from Greece, so it happens that i browse content with Greek letters a lot. :) I will try to setup a VM the the minimum packages required to run chrome, maybe we miss a dependency that happens to be installed anyway with KDE / Gnome or whatever. [1] http://i.imgur.com/2jfOz.png Regards, George