Issue 130969 in chromium: Text garbled on several web sites.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: OS-Mac Area-Undefined Pri-2 Type-Bug

New issue 130969 by aaronyo...@google.com: Text garbled on several web
sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

Chrome Version : 19.0.1084.52
OS Version: OS X 10.5.8
URLs (if applicable) : nytimes.com, huffingtonpost.com, boingboing.net
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5.06: OK
Firefox 5.01: OK


What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to any web page
2. If page looks normal, reload until the text it garbled.

What is the expected result?
Normal text.


What happens instead?
Some text appears as garbage strings such
as: "efo%eo+e%%w%%wyeeeeweeIfo%%eI%".
However, when I select this same text and copy-and-paste it, it appears in
the destination as normal (in this example: "But the fossil record tells us
that wasn't always the case. There were, for instance, at l")
This suggests to me that there may be a font selection or font rendering
problem.


Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

I just started seeing this problem today.
See attached screen shots.


UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8)
AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5

Attachments:
HuffingtonPost.png 60.4 KB
nytimes.png 479 KB
boingboing.net.png 244 KB

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: -Area-Undefined Area-WebKit WebKit-Fonts

Comment #1 on issue 130969 by tk...@chromium.org: Text garbled on several
web sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

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[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #3 on issue 130969 by meh...@chromium.org: Text garbled on several
web sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

Can you reproduce it with the latest Canary ?

Download at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs

Thanks in advance.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #4 on issue 130969 by AaronYo...@gmail.com: Text garbled on several
web sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

I'm no longer seeing the problem.
I noticed that I'm now running 19.0.1084.54 instead of 19.0.1084.52
(thanks, auto-updater!) so that may have fixed it.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #5 on issue 130969 by AaronYo...@gmail.com: Text garbled on several
web sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

I downloaded Version 21.0.1168.0 canary and have not seen the problem after
trying three web sites that contained garbled text before.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: WontFix

Comment #6 on issue 130969 by meh...@chromium.org: Text garbled on several
web sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

Thanks for your feedback. Closing then for now ...

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 130969 by dwarr...@gmail.com: Text garbled on several
web sites.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130969

I am seeing the same behaviour described in the original post in
19.0.1084.56 on OSX 10.5.8. Can this issue be reopened?