Bug#665978: epiphany-browser: No boldface for non-latin characters

Tue Mar 27 14:26:35 UTC 2012

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 3.3.91-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I found epiphany browser does not have boldface for non-latin
characters.  For example, the following is a simple html document:

<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="charset=utf-8">
		<title>Test Boldface of Non-latin Characters</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<strong>Hello 世界</strong>
	</body>
</html>

As indicated by the html codes, the file has a sentence containing two
strings: "Hello" and "世界" in boldface.  The expected behavior is that
both "Hello" and "世界" are in boldface when being displayed in
epiphany.  However, only the first string "Hello" is in boldface and the
second non-latin one "世界" is still in regular form.  By contrast, when
I use iceweasel to render it, both "Hello" and "世界" are in boldface.

I tested both the versions of epiphany in sid and experimental with
updated webkit library.  The buggy behavior can be reproduced.

Please let me know if you need more information.  Thank you very much.

Best,
HZ

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                   1.4.18-1
ii  epiphany-browser-data      3.3.91-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.2.1.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.2.0-2
ii  iso-codes                  3.33-1
ii  libavahi-client3           0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-common3           0.6.31-1
ii  libavahi-gobject0          0.6.31-1
ii  libc6                      2.13-27
ii  libcairo2                  1.10.2-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.0-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1      1.31.22-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.32.0-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0          3.2.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.3.16-1
ii  libice6                    2:1.0.7-2
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.4-1
ii  libnspr4-0d                4.9-1
ii  libnss3-1d                 3.13.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.29.4-3+b1
ii  libseed-gtk3-0             3.2.0-1
ii  libsm6                     2:1.2.0-2
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1         2.37.92-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.37.92-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.7.11-2
ii  libwebkitgtk-3.0-0         1.7.91-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxml2                    2.7.8.dfsg-7
ii  libxslt1.1                 1.1.26-8

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20120212
ii  evince           3.2.1-1+b1
ii  yelp             3.2.1+dfsg-1+b1

Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests:
ii  epiphany-extensions  3.3.90-1

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