On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Luigi Rizzo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I just noticed that Chromium 16.0.912.63 (on FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 amd64, > and a basic install of Xorg 7.5.1 does not properly display greek characters > (such as α β and so on) > > A simple offending file is this: > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <body> > α β γ δ σ > </body> > > 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-greek-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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chromium To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
