Bug 14559 - Korean rendering problem
Summary: Korean rendering problem
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New Bugs (show other bugs)
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware: Mac (PowerPC) OS X 10.4
: P1 Major
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2007-07-07 17:21 PDT by Juno Kang
Modified: 2008-01-30 11:01 PST (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Juno Kang 2007-07-07 17:21:42 PDT
Korean pages don't get rendered correctly. A few issues here;

First of all, some web pages (like cyworld.com) get wrong language encoding. It was okay with Safari version 2. But with Safari 3.0.2 with new WebKit is problematic. 

Second - check - http://news.naver.com/sports/index.nhn?category=soccer and you will see two different korean fonts. It should use only one. Safari 2 was okay with this.

Third - Java script is less compatible than using Firefox. Specially for cyworld.com (which is the most popular site in Korea. Firefox works okay here).
Comment 1 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2007-07-07 17:45:52 PDT
(In reply to comment #0)
> First of all, some web pages (like cyworld.com) get wrong language encoding. It
> was okay with Safari version 2. But with Safari 3.0.2 with new WebKit is
> problematic. 
> 
> Second - check - http://news.naver.com/sports/index.nhn?category=soccer and you
> will see two different korean fonts. It should use only one. Safari 2 was okay
> with this.
> 
> Third - Java script is less compatible than using Firefox. Specially for
> cyworld.com (which is the most popular site in Korea. Firefox works okay here).

Please file separate bugs for issues #2 and #3.  Thanks!
Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-07-07 22:55:06 PDT
(In reply to comment #0)
> First of all, some web pages (like cyworld.com) get wrong language encoding. It
> was okay with Safari version 2. But with Safari 3.0.2 with new WebKit is
> problematic. 

I cannot reproduce this - the page looks OK to me with nightly r24064. What problems do you see? Also, are they still reproducible with nightly builds? You can download one from <http://nightly.webkit.org>.

And yes, please file separate bugs for other problems.
Comment 3 Rosyna 2007-07-16 04:32:18 PDT
Is this a bug for the second problem? (Since the title mentions rendering).

The "two fonts" issue actually appears to be a synthetic bold being applied to the hangul font. I don't know if CJK fonts *should* be getting a synthetic bold for characters in the CJK planes.
Comment 4 Luis Roel 2008-01-22 17:14:30 PST
I cant seem to see the difference....but it displays correctly on latest nightly build.What build were you running?
Comment 5 Alexey Proskuryakov 2008-01-30 10:33:59 PST
Internet Explorer also has both plain and bold text on this page. Generally, Safari seems to render it as close to IE as possible.

So I do not see any issues here.