Closed Bug 291566 Opened 19 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Does not display Punjabi font for certain website

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(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: paul_kainth, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Even after I install the intended font Firefox still displays some garbage but
IE works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit the siteand install the font.
2.Visit the site again and you be prompted to install the font again
3.Click on the Canadian flag on the left, you'll see garbage

Actual Results:  
Install fonts page again.

Expected Results:  
Once the font is installed you should not see the install fonts page again. 
Once you click on the Canadian flag you should see writing in Punjabi.
Are you trying to display hindi or use an Indic script? If so, this is almost
certainly a known bug. Sorry.
the encoding is iso-8859-1 which isn't Punjabi

Tech Evan ?
Acording to the website it's Punjabi Font.
(In reply to comment #3)
> Acording to the website it's Punjabi Font.

I am with Peter

% curl -I http://hamdardweekly.com/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 06:58:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.48 (Linux/SuSE)
Last-Modified: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:44:59 GMT
ETag: "fa6fd-1c9-694f0cc0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 457
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

It is possible that you are using a 'fake' encoding with a font such
as DRChatrikWeb which matches. This is not going to work in compliant
browsers which have a correct way of achieving what you want. See
http://webtips.dan.info/char.html and various pages linked from there.
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Latest Version FireFox 1.0.7 problem still not fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: EXPIRED → ---
Paul, 1.0 uses code that's not been touched since April of 2004. Please test in
1.5 beta 2 and see if this problem still exists.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Tried version 1.5 beta 2 and browser is still garbage but work with IE.
(In reply to comment #8)
> Paul, 1.0 uses code that's not been touched since April of 2004. Please test in
> 1.5 beta 2 and see if this problem still exists.
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Adam, I was under the impression that Firefox was rendering the
pages on this site according to the headers and metadata sent.

If this is not a T.E. bug, then it may be a question of whether
the site was hoping to be renderered in a quirks mode, but had,
perhaps unwittingly, triggered standards compliant mode.

I would surprised if this report led to any improvement in Firefox,
and, of course, it may be a duplicate.
Assignee: bugs → nobody
Verified even with version 2.0.0.3 bug is still there.
Component: OS Integration → Layout: Fonts and Text
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: os.integration → layout.fonts-and-text
(In reply to paul_kainth from comment #11)
> Verified even with version 2.0.0.3 bug is still there.

I cannot reproduce with 3.6.24 but I might have such fonts installed on my system.
Paul, is this still an issue in Firefox 3.6 or 8.0 for you?
Summary: screen displays garbage → Does not display Punjabi font for certain website
The hamdardweekly.com site mentioned in the URL field is now serving its content in Unicode, and displays fine for me. (With no requirement to download a special font.)

The site was almost certainly relying on a custom-encoded (non-Unicode-compliant) font in the past, and Firefox did not support that. Now that the site's text is standards-based, it works as expected, and this report is no longer relevant.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
I collided with Jonathan saying much the same thing :)
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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