Issue 131637 in chromium: Weird asiatic characters support

[chro...@googlecode.com]

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

New issue 131637 by kikone...@gmail.com: Weird asiatic characters support
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131637

Chrome Version : 19.0.1084.52
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari: Not tested
Firefox 13.0: OK
IE 9: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1.Power on the computer
2.Start Google Chrome
3.Go to some asiatic page

What is the expected result?

Asiatic characters are displayed correctly.

What happens instead?

Asiatic characters are *partially* not displayed correctly (instead, there
are squares). This happens not only in Google Chrome, also in all the
operating system.

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

This is hard to explain because the bug is a bit complex... So I'll do it
in parts:

1."Partially not displayed correctly"

That means, asiatic characters after launching Google Chrome are displayed
correctly in:
·Websites
·Text editors
·File names (in windows explorer)
But are not displayed in:
·Page title
·Bookmarks
·Anywhere else in the OS (file properties, installations, quick info, some
software, etc.)

2.But that's a problem of the operating system

NO. This is where the weird thing comes. If I start whatever application
that needs asiatic characters support *before* starting Google Chrome, they
are displayed correctly everywhere, even in Google Chrome bookmarks and
page titles.

3.There's a difference between operating systems

I have actually tested this in three different computers:

·Windows 7 Professional & Windows 7 Home Premium: This strange thing
happens.
·Windows XP: All works perfectly.

4.And that's it

I hope someone can get this issue and investigate it. It's really strange.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 131637 by tk...@chromium.org: Weird asiatic characters
support
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131637

Could you tell us URLs in which we can reproduce the problem, and provide
screenshots?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 131637 by kikone...@gmail.com: Weird asiatic characters
support
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131637

Oh, of course!

There are some URLs:

http://www21.atwiki.jp/iwannabethewiki/pages/283.html (Japanese)
http://www.qq.com (Chinese)
http://www.daum.net/ (Korean)

Screenshots are attached to this comment. The left side shows how the page
looks when "launching whatever application that needs asiatic characters
support *before* starting Google Chrome". The right side shows how the page
looks when starting Google Chrome first.

P.S.: In case someone is wondering, this does not happen with other special
characters (like arabic, indonesian, etc.)

Attachments:
Japanese.png 96.6 KB
Chinese.png 168 KB
Korean.png 267 KB