Bug 14070 – Synthetic bold and italic don't render

• Component: New Bugs
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Torsten Kammer]

In Safari 3 public beta for Windows on Windows 2000 (I know it isn't supported), any text that uses a synthesized bold or italic font doesn't render. Texts that have true italic/bold fonts render just fine.

[Torsten Kammer]

Created attachment 14936 [details]
Test case for bug

This demonstrates the bug. It assumes that Arial has no italic and bold versions on your computer. It should work with any other font that doesn't have these versions, too.

[Paulo Aguiar]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This demonstrates the bug. It assumes that Arial has no italic and bold
> versions on your computer. It should work with any other font that doesn't have
> these versions, too.
> 

On my computer I have 'Arial', 'Arial Black', 'Arial Black Italic', 'Arial Bold', 'Arial Bold Italic', 'Arial Italic', 'Arial Narrow', 'Arial Narrow Bold', 'Arial Narrow Bold Italic', 'Arial Narrow Italic' and 'Arial Unicode MS'.
I get the same problem too. It sucks since I can't even read Google's results properly. I hope they fix this soon...

[Torsten Kammer]

To clarify: This is on a german installation of Windows (because others report that this doesn't happen on english installs)

[Robert Blaut]

You can fix rendering issues by changing language for non-Unicode programs. The instruction: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx#EVE

You should restart system after applying setting.

[Robert Blaut]

Probably duplication of a bug #14086 which is actually fixed. On my Windows XP Pro with Polish locales test case works fine.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Marking as fixed; please re-open if this still happens for you with Safari beta 3.0.2.