Bug 189306

Summary: Georgian uppercase characters unreadable - request temporarily disabling CSS uppercase mappings
Product: WebKit Reporter: Luke Swartz <lswartz>
Component: CSSAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: bfulgham, jshin, katmomoi, mmaxfield, webkit-bug-importer
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: Safari 11   
Hardware: Mac   
OS: macOS 10.13   
Attachments:
Description Flags
screenshot showing tofu for Georgian uppercase on Safari
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MS Edge browser showing the Youtube page in Georgian language none

Luke Swartz
Reported 2018-09-05 09:20:07 PDT
Created attachment 348929 [details] screenshot showing tofu for Georgian uppercase on Safari Unicode 11 added an uppercase version of the modern Georgian script (called “Mtavruli” or “Mkhedruli Mtavruli”), along with “case mappings” between the old (now lowercase) version and the new (uppercase) version. Since this is brand-new, almost no fonts support the new, uppercase versions. Various webpages and web apps use CSS’s text-transform: uppercase property to do upper-casing...any Unicode 11-compliant browser will thus “case map” the old characters to the new ones...and if the new ones don’t have fonts, they will show up as boxes (“tofu”). Both Firefox and Chrome (Blink) have already (or are in the process of) temporarily disabling CSS case mappings for Georgian: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476304 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=865427&desc=2 ...eventually, once Georgian uppercase fonts are widely distributed, these changse can be reverted. Steps to reproduce: 1. Visit a webpage that includes case-mapped upper case (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B9Fk_SgI0 2. Change webpage to Gerogian (e.g. Go to "3 dot hamburger" menu in upper right, choose "Language" (with A/文 icon), select "ქართული") 3. Notice that the upper case text shows up as "tofu" (boxes) ...screenshot is attached from Safari 11.1.2 (13605.3.8) running on MacBook Pro
Attachments
screenshot showing tofu for Georgian uppercase on Safari (22.00 KB, image/png)
2018-09-05 09:20 PDT, Luke Swartz
no flags
MS Edge browser showing the Youtube page in Georgian language (3.49 MB, image/png)
2018-09-05 13:34 PDT, Katsuhiko Momoi
no flags
Radar WebKit Bug Importer
Comment 1 2018-09-05 09:53:31 PDT
Katsuhiko Momoi
Comment 2 2018-09-05 13:34:16 PDT
Created attachment 348957 [details] MS Edge browser showing the Youtube page in Georgian language The image shows what "#20 ON TRENDING" looks like in Georgian.
Katsuhiko Momoi
Comment 3 2018-09-05 13:48:57 PDT
Does MS Edge use Webkit on Windows 10? It probably does not but the user agent string is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.79 Safari/537.36 Edge/14.14393 this presumably means that this browser is in the same class as Webkit based browsers.
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 4 2018-09-05 15:10:19 PDT
Jungshik Shin
Comment 5 2018-09-06 12:14:16 PDT
Brent Fulgham
Comment 6 2022-02-12 22:51:55 PST
This was fixed in the system Font layer. No changes were needed in WebKit.
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