The input text field of firefox is too wide/long

[Richard Huang]

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10. The input text field of firefox is too wide/long. And the dialogs and buttons of Eclipse have the same problem. Please see the attached screenshots.

I searched around on web, and somebody said that it should be a problem of cairo.. I know very little of cairo, so I have to file a bug here.

[Richard Huang (huangyunsong)]

a screenshot of eclipse

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

richard, we suspect this might be a locale-related issue. can you please type in a terminal "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 firefox" and then visit the google site again? thank you

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is definately a locale problem. I can recreate this by running "LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 eclipse". I don't see the problem with English locale. Now we have to try and decide which is the correct package to assign to :/

[Richard Huang (huangyunsong)]

Dimitrios, Chris,

Thanks for your comments. Actually I knew this workaround, but I'm a Chinese and I need to use my computer in Chinese language. A lot of people also reported the same problem in a Ubuntu Chinese Forum (forum.ubuntu.org.cn), all of us are expecting a fix for this.

Thanks for your time.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

assigning to ff3 and marking as confirmed...
let's see how it goes...

[Richard Huang (huangyunsong)]

Thanks for confirming this problem... But it's not appropriate to mark it as low important, it's not a minor problem. Many Chinese users are switching back to 8.04 or another OS because of this bug. Could you raise its priority level?

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Hi Richard,

Whilst I appreciate that the bug might not be low importance from your perspective, it is the correct importance for this bug. Cosmetic issues which do not affect the functionality of the application are low importance. Please have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance for general guidelines for setting bug importance.

This bug does not meet the criteria to be set to anything higher than low importance

[Joe Cai (joey-cai)]

This is not a firefox bug. It's a pango bug which has been fixed in pango svn.
Please check http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563356 .

[Richard Huang (huangyunsong)]

It's great to see the problem resovled. Thanks Joe for sharing the info.

[catinsnow (catinsnow)]

pango-1.22.4 has been released. pls update or backports this new version to intrepid, as this bug is really a critical regression for users use Chinese. many thanks.

========================================
 NEWS: pango-1.22.4
========================================

Overview of changes between 1.22.3 and 1.22.4
=============================================
- Misc bug fixes
- Improved docs
- Bugs fixed in this release:
 Bug 564644 – Not complete description of the
  pango_font_description_better_match function
 Bug 563898 – Generated output is not deterministic
 Bug 563803 – pango_renderer_finalize fails to call parent finalize
 Bug 499626 – Space should be optional after comma in
  PangoFontDescription input string
 Bug 499624 – Spaces around commas in PangoFontDescription family name
  should be trimmed
 Bug 563557 – set g_get_prgname() in fc pattern
 Bug 563356 – The input area of firefox and the blank width after text
  in gnome-menu was stretched too wide, under pango-1.22.3
 Bug 562574 – Pangocariowin32 is leaking every cairo font it ever
  creates

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version is in jaunty

[aidosnet (maurizio-boscaini)]

Hi, I have the same problem with:
jaunty, firefox-3.5

can someone help me?

thanks in advance
mauri