1012622 - Firefox Android Aurora with rendering problem in Odia

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Subhashish Panigrahi (@psubhashish)]

Attachment: FIrefox Aurora (Android) - Samsung Galaxy Note Android 4.1.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140506152807

Steps to reproduce:

1. Opened http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora-android-l10n/
2. Downloaded http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora-android-l10n/fennec-31.0a2.or.android-arm.apk and installed in an Android phone
3. Opened Firefox Aurora and opened websites in tabs


Actual results:

Odia conjuncts were not displayed because of lack of rendering engine


Expected results:

Conjuncts should have been displayed correctly

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Can you attach a screenshot showing a website? The settings UI you posted is not Gecko rendering that, that's Android.

Comment 2

[Manoj Kumar Giri]

Tested in Android version 4.2.2 (Samsung Galaxy S DUOS 2).
Observation:
Found no rendering issue for the same page.

Comment 3

[Subhashish Panigrahi (@psubhashish)]

Rendering issues are there only for system/interface messages. Visited Odia Wikipedia (https://or.wikipedia.org) from the same phone. There are no rendering issues.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Do other applications on the device display Odia correctly?

It sounds to me like the Gecko rendering is OK, but the Java Android UI code doesn't handle Odia on 4.1. I don't think there's anything we can reasonably do about that; the only "fix" is to update the device to a newer version of Android that supports Odia shaping, as we're dependent on the OS text display for these parts of the interface.

Comment 5

[Subhashish Panigrahi (@psubhashish)]

Hi Jonathon, yes all other apps and websites display Odia perfectly. In fact the interface messages of other apps (the ones which have localized versions) display correctly except Firefox Aurora. So, I do not think it is a problem with the OS. I am reopening this thread.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #5)
> Hi Jonathon, yes all other apps and websites display Odia perfectly. In fact
> the interface messages of other apps (the ones which have localized
> versions) display correctly except Firefox Aurora. So, I do not think it is
> a problem with the OS. I am reopening this thread.

Hmm, that's interesting. The fact that it renders correctly within web pages but not in the Firefox UI shows that it's a problem with the Java side of the app, and not with Gecko itself. I wonder whether we're using older Java text APIs, or something like that.

cc'ing a couple more of the Mobile guys who might know something about that code.

Comment 7

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Mass change to move Firefox for Android::Readability bugs to block bug 1129033. Filter on readability-mass-move.

Comment 8

[miralobontiu]

Hi,

Is this issue still reproducible?

Thank you!

Comment 9

[miralobontiu]

Hi,

I rephrase my previous question: does this issue reproduce on Release/Nightly build?

Thanks!

Comment 10

[Stefan Deiac]

Due to the lack of additional info, I'll close this issue as Incomplete. If someone can provide more information regarding this issue, please feel free to reopen it, thanks.