Flash and Firefox: Fonts, Version, Encoding all wrong

[benny1967]

I use Firefox 2.0.0.12 with the Adobe's plugin.

Quite a while ago I realized that on many flash based sites, parts or all of the text wont show up. I didnt care much then. Lately, the situation got worse: Flash-based chat systems didnt allow me to enter non-ASCII-characters anymore. German Umlauts looked like UTF8 interpreted as Latin1/ASCII - they showed up as two unreadable characters.

I used net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.115.0 until I found out today that, according to http://gentoo-portage.com/, its hard masked! It does not show up as hard masked on my system, and, yes, I checked package.unmask

Downgrading to net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1 (I masked the other one myself now) solved the character encoding problem in input text field, but I still have many flash-sites without text. (www.nseries.com is one of them.)

So, the two questions remain:
a) Where does the flash plugin get its fonts from and why doesnt it work here? (its obviously not a well-known problem, there's nothing in the forum...)
b) how come netscape-flash-9.0.115.0 installed here when its hard-masked and I didnt unmask it? Anything wrong with portage?

I found something quite old but interesting about this here, but I'm not sure how this would apply to a modern gentoo box and its file layout... I dnt find all the font paths they're talking about on my box.

[benny1967]

BTW:
This is how www.nseries.com looks on my PC:
http://festplatte.aon.at/a/filemanager.get/1870356/NokiaN.png

[jsubl2]

I had a similiar issue found my problem to be in the kernel config
under General Setup
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y

is what I missed. If you used genkernel this is likely NOT your problem
for me. cnn.com worked but abcnews.com did not.

[benny1967]

thx jsubl2, i do have CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y

meanwhile i tried flash 9.0 r124 and firefox 2.0.0.14, still no change.
(except that flash 9.0 r124 has the same character encoding problem as r115, so i downgraded to .48 again)

[praka123]

I tried different fonts and "size" options to finally have anti-aliasing working!

sans-serif size 14!
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[benny1967]

anti-aliasing is not the problem.

the problem is that the fonts are not there at all! (at least some) in flash and that in a flash-based input (like in a chat) non-ascii characters are not encoded correctly (i type "Ö" and it shows up as "Ö").

The whole plugin is close to unusable.

[praka123]

I am not so sure,but did u merged gsfonts
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[benny1967]

I'd read about media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std being necassary for flash to work; I checked and yes, I have both std and gnu-gs-fonts-other installed.

[catkfr]

I'm also looking into font problems with flash. I also see every so often flash animations with no text at all... Running ~x86 with gs-fonts-std not other.