When a font falls back per-character synthetic bold fails to apply properly. This is apparent by observing fast/text/international/bold-bengali.html.
Created attachment 184337 [details] Patch
Attachment 184337 [details] did not pass style-queue: Failed to run "['Tools/Scripts/check-webkit-style', '--diff-files', u'LayoutTests/ChangeLog', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/css/font-face-multiple-faces-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/css/font-face-synthetic-bold-italic-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/dom/34176-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/encoding/denormalised-voiced-japanese-chars-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/bidi-embedding-pop-and-push-same-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/cg-fallback-bolding-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/fallback-traits-fixup-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/international/bidi-LDB-2-CSS-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/international/bidi-LDB-2-HTML-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/international/bidi-LDB-2-formatting-characters-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/international/bold-bengali-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/international/khmer-selection-expected.png', u'LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/writing-mode/Kusa-Makura-background-canvas-expected.png', u'Source/WebCore/ChangeLog', u'Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/freetype/FontPlatformDataFreeType.cpp']" exit_code: 1 LayoutTests/platform/gtk/fast/text/international/bold-bengali-expected.png:0: Have to enable auto props in the subversion config file (/home/alancutter/.subversion/config "enable-auto-props = yes"). Have to set the svn:mime-type in the subversion config file (/home/alancutter/.subversion/config "*.png = svn:mime-type=image/png"). [image/png] [5] Total errors found: 1 in 4 files If any of these errors are false positives, please file a bug against check-webkit-style.
Comment on attachment 184337 [details] Patch Clearing flags on attachment: 184337 Committed r140967: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/140967>
All reviewed patches have been landed. Closing bug.