On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:53, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > I've got a strange one here that I can't figure out ... > > Galeon, Opera and Mozilla all choke if I go to any websites that use > Asian characters. By choke I mean freeze up - the browser can't be used > nor can it be killed except by through its PID. I asked some other > Linux users to check out their browsers on these sites, and their > systems render the pages and don't freeze. Why is my system locking up? > > A few more clues: > > I don't have the same lock-up when using links, w3m or dillo. > > I'm running Debian 2.4.18 on an i386, using testing. Galeon is 1.25, > Opera is 6.03 and Mozilla is 1.0.0-0.woody.1. > > Only the browsers lock up. All other functionality in other programs > and windows, including X, remain o.k. > > sakura:~$ echo $LANG > C > > European websites come up fine. Only those using something like > Japanese, Chinese or Korea chars. In the status line of the browser I > can see the msg that states it's "loading site" and then "transferring > data" but then when it tries to paint the window, it freezes. > > At this point I'm not too concerned whether these pages render the chars > correctly or not, I just want it to stop locking up whenever it > encounters an Asian char. > > I know that in each of these browsers there are settings for foreign > languages. I've tried those, and I still get lockups. > > I've also used dpkg-reconfigure locales to add in Japanese charsets. > Still no good. > > Wondering what to try next ...? > > Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > Kevin > > -- > > Kevin Coyner > mailto: kevin@rustybear.com > GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941 My system is also rendering the characters fine (at least on more than half of the Japanese sites, and any Korean site I've tried. I don't have Chinese sites I know of to check up on.) My first suspicion, given that Opera is also on the list, is that something in the fonts themselves are causing the freeze, because I believe Gecko, and likely Opera, do some more internal handling of fonts compared to w3m or dillo. It could well be just a situation of you running a *particular* release of these fonts or something in the font handling pipeline. It might be time to start tracking down the versions involved... -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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