On bug reporting style [was: Re: Netscape 3.0]

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

>>>>> Shige == "Shige Abe" <sabe@example.com> writes:

    Shige> How do I get buttons in web pages to display in Japanese?
    Shige> Text is displayed perfectly, but buttons just show
    Shige> "garbage".

The technical term is "mojibake."

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Darren Cook wrote:

    >> It should work, so it is probably using a different (ie. not
    >> Japanese) font for the buttons.  If it is Netscape make sure
    >> both the (proportional and fixed width) fonts are Japanese.

>>>>> "Craig" == C Oda <craig@example.com> writes:

    Craig> Darren, I'm using Netscape 3.0.

    Craig> What Fixed Font are you using?  I've tried Fixed (Misc) and
    Craig> Fixed (Jis).  Where are you specifying the fonts?

Hmm.  I don't know of any pages where the buttons are labelled in
Japanese.  I can't check my proposed solution or the bug either.  I
bet Darren doesn't either (he wrote "should work" which could either
mean "it works on my machine" or "any decent programmer would have
made it work that way").  Somebody ought to give a pointer to the
relevant page so we can see who's getting it right and who isn't.

If you think you've got a bug, you should always provide input so
others can reproduce it.

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                           Stephen John Turnbull
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