377130 - Some characters missing in pages containing Malayalam and Gujarati content

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Naresh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061204 GranParadiso/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061204 GranParadiso/3.0a1

 Malayalam: It is observed that some characters are missing in pages containing Malayalam content, moreover a space is being shown  wherever such character exists. While on Win>IE they are being rendered correctly.
   (Similiar issue is seen in Win>Firefox3, but special characters are seen here)
  Source: deepika.com
  Snapshot: Firefox3_Linux_Malayalam_SomeCharsMissingAndShownAsSpaces.gif
 
Gujarati: Many characters are seen missing in Gujarati too. (Seen on both Linux and Win>FF3)
   Source: gujaratsamachar.com
   Snapshot: Firefox3_Linux_Gujarati_SomeCharsMissingAndShownAsSpaces

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch the  Gran Paradiso browser.
2. Load the sites deepika.com and gujaratsamachar.com
3. Make sure that the ttf fonts that can be downloaded from the respective sites are properly installed.

Actual Results:  
It is observed that in the site deepika.com, some malayalam characters are missing, and they are being rendered as a space. While in the site gujaratsamachar.com, many characters are seen missing. (This is as seen in Linux, in Windows we see special chartecters instead of these characters).


Expected Results:  
All characters should be visible, there should not be any special characters.

Comment 1

[Naresh]

Attachment: A snapshot of a page with malayalam content in Linux>Firefox3 browser

Comment 2

[Naresh]

Attachment: A snapshot of a page having gujarati content taken from Linux>Firefox3 browser

Comment 3

[Naresh]

Attachment: A snapshot showing specail characters in page containg malayalam text (taken in Windows>Firefox3 browser)

A snapshot showing specail characters in page containg malayalam text (taken in Windows>Firefox3 browser)

Comment 4

[Naresh]

Attachment: A snapshot showing special characters in page containg gujarati text (taken in Windows>Firefox3 browser)

A snapshot showing special characters in page containg gujarati text (taken in Windows>Firefox3 browser)

Comment 5

[Naresh]

Characters are seen missing in pages containing oriya content too. This was seen on Windows Firefox3 Gran Paradiso browser. 
   Source: http://www.orissasamaya.com 

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Do you still see the same problems in 3.0a3, or a current nightly build?

Comment 7

[Biju]

Is this same as Bug 362527 or Bug 380117