1073824 - Auto hyphens not working on Ubuntu

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[anatole.mendoza]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140924083558

Steps to reproduce:

Auto hyphenation doesn't work on Linux, meaning that webpages don't show hyphens despite the "-moz-hyphens: auto;" directive. I tested with both English and French webpages, which otherwise work with Firefox on Windows and Mac. I am using the standard Ubuntu packages, called "firefox", "firefox-locale-en" and "firefox-locale-fr". The version number of these packages says "32.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1".

Here is a demo page that people on Linux could test:

http://s.codepen.io/HugoGiraudel/fullembedgrid/3983209536be8ee1fde113ab7a00473e?type=embed&animations=run

Comment 1

[Loic]

Could you attach a screenshot of the issue, maybe?

Comment 2

[anatole.mendoza]

Attachment: Ubuntu (not working).png

Comment 3

[anatole.mendoza]

Attachment: Debian (working).png

Comment 4

[anatole.mendoza]

@Loic: OK, I did a screenshot of the issue on my Ubuntu system. The file is called "Ubuntu (not working).png". Then I used the site Browsershots to get a screenshot of Firefox on another system. Curiously, Browsershots offers a Debian Firefox, which seems to work. So, the problem is not Linux-specific, as I originally thought, but Ubuntu-specific. Anyway, see "Ubuntu (not working).png" and "Debian (working).png".

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to anatole.mendoza from comment #4)
> @Loic: OK, I did a screenshot of the issue on my Ubuntu system. The file is
> called "Ubuntu (not working).png". Then I used the site Browsershots to get
> a screenshot of Firefox on another system. Curiously, Browsershots offers a
> Debian Firefox, which seems to work. So, the problem is not Linux-specific,
> as I originally thought, but Ubuntu-specific. Anyway, see "Ubuntu (not
> working).png" and "Debian (working).png".

Please try an official build instead of the build provided by Ubuntu. You can get one from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ .

Comment 6

[kaeseblatt]

try

sudo apt-get install hyphen-[preferred lang.]

Comment 7

[anatole.mendoza]

@[e-mail]: Wow, you're a genious. At first, I was sceptical to try your solution, because the package descriptions say "for LibreOffice". But after installing "hyphen-en-us" and "hyphen-fr", hyphens work now in Firefox. Am I to assume that Firefox is dependant on files in /usr/share/hyphen? In such case, shouldn't "firefox-locale-en" and "firefox-locale-fr" include a dependancy to "hyphen-en-us" and "hyphen-fr"?

Comment 8

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to anatole.mendoza from comment #7)
> Am I to assume that Firefox is dependant on files in
> /usr/share/hyphen? In such case, shouldn't "firefox-locale-en" and
> "firefox-locale-fr" include a dependancy to "hyphen-en-us" and "hyphen-fr"?

The ubuntu package might be; I'd be surprised if the official build was. The official build's lack of deps would be an Ubuntu bug.

Comment 9

[anatole.mendoza]

@Gijs Kruitbosch: Yes, in light of these new informations, it definitely seems like a bug in the Ubuntu packaging system. In fact, I found just now someone who has reported this bug on the Ubuntu Launchpad site, but his bug report has remained unassigned for months now:

Bug #1350596 “Firefox hyphenation tools missing”
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1350596