179037 - Cannot change font settings for Hebrew and Arabic

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110655

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[Artem]

It is impossible to use any fonts except Lucida Grande for Hebrew in
Chimera/Mozilla for MacOS X. 

The preferences pane in Chimera allows me to choose different Hebrew fonts but
these settings have no impact on actual page-layout. The text is always rendered
in Lucida Grande only. 

Mozilla for MacOS X doesn't allow to choose any Hebrew fonts at all.

It seems that the same is true or Arabic also. You can render Arabic page only
in default Lucida.

It could be issue of fonts but I tried any possible Hebrew fonts - those that
came in Language Kit for MacOS 9, those that ships with localized Hebrew MacOS
and finally Unicode Windows fonts. The same fonts are fine in other MacOS X
applications (say TextEdit) except localized Hebrew MacOS fonts - the system
does not allow me to select these fonts for use with hebrew script. However
Chimera actually does allow me to select both Windows Unicode fonts and LK fonts
- but it still has no impact on rendering.

Note that Mozilla for Classic MacOS allows user to change Hebrew fonts.

Unfortunately, Lucida that came with MacOS X 10.2 is not the best font for
Hebrew and especially for Arabic.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is a dupe of either bug 110655 or bug 153296. We so need a developer who
can provide some traction on all these Mac Bidi bugs.

Comment 2

[Shoshannah Forbes]

This is an exact dupe of bug 110655
We really need to start fixing all these mac bugs

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110655 ***