105688 - Rendering of unicode text has bugs.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Kedar Patankar]

The URL above is of a newspaper in marathi language (uses devanagari script).
This site used to render *perfectly* in moz 0.9.1. Since 0.9.2 onward, rendering
of their unicode font is broken, it displayes bunch of white spaces and '$'
characters intermixed with the actual text. Its still readable, but annoying.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Page specifies no encoding... sounds like the charset detector is doing
something odd.

Comment 2

[Roy Yokoyama]

kedar:  We have looked at this problem and we see that
IE and NS4.x using the 'Dynamic Fonts" feature which
we dont' support in Mozilla yet.  ( I am going to add
the feature in our wishlist )  Thus, we should never
be able to display the page correctly at this point.
However, your comment indicates that you were able
to render before m0.9.2 build.

Few questions I have if you can spare your time to answer
for us.
1)  can you provide us with a screen shot?  I used the current
  mozilla, all the text in the page rendered garbled.
2) which platform/language do you use?
3) what is the font in your Preference setting?
4) do we have to do something special other than specificed in
    www.eskal.com/prog/frm_browsersettings.htm ?

Comment 3

[Roy Yokoyama]

I got email from Kedar. Attach screenshots later.

> 1)  can you provide us with a screen shot?  I used the current
>     mozilla, all the text in the page rendered garbled.
You need to download their font from that site and put it in
c:\winnt\system32\fonts or have it recognised by xfs in linux. They have a
link to the font on the first page.
I am attaching the screenshot with this mail. Its on M$ W2K, mozilla 0.9.5.
I have similar setup at home on RedHat 7.1, mozilla 0.9.1 and 0.9.5. The
results are identical on W2k and RH7.1.


> 2) which platform/language do you use?
Both Win2K and RH7.1. Mozilla 0.9.1 works ***perfectly***. Its even better
than IE for the spacing, and other quirks of indic script rendering.
I use english/US.

> 3) what is the font in your Preference setting?
I haven't changed the preference settings since installation of mozilla.
They are the defaults.

> 4) do we have to do something special other than specificed in
>    www.eskal.com/prog/frm_browsersettings.htm ?
Nope.

I believe that this is an important problem. If we can't have indic
languages renderred properly in moz, almost nobody in india would be able to
even think of using mozilla.

Comment 4

[Roy Yokoyama]

Attachment: screenshot 1

Comment 5

[Roy Yokoyama]

Attachment: screenshot 2

Comment 6

[Roy Yokoyama]

I now see the '$' and white spaces.

Comment 7

[Kedar Patankar]

White spacing is probably OK. Most annoying are those "$" and "<" that keep 
popping up.

Comment 8

[Lucas MacBride]

Something similar seems to be happening for Finnish users in Win2k and Linux.
The homepage of this site has problems for two Finnish users, but I can't
duplicate it in either Win98 or Linux. See the thread with screen shots in
netscape.public.mozilla.browser, subject "Scandanavian chars" started January 3,
2002. They're getting question marks (Linux) or question-mark-in-black-diamond
(Win2k) characters.

Is this the same bug?

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

display problem. Mark it as FUTURE. Indic display is not the current target.
reassign to shanjian.

Comment 10

[Shanjian Li]

accepting

Comment 11

[Shanjian Li]

I tried this with latest mozilla trunk build, but don't see any problem.
Reporter, could you verify? (my os is w2k).

Comment 12

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

I've just tried with Firefox 2.0. From what I could see on the screen, I think the problem is solved long ago.  Let's close this bug as WORKSFORME.