179804 - Unicode text(Language Hindi) not displayed properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166520

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

Description

[Nitin Kumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/translations/hindi.html

This page and other pages using Unicode UTF-8 encoding are not displayed properly.

I am specifically talking about webpages written in Indian language, Hindi and
using unicode encoding.

Although much of the page is displayed correctly the problems are -
(The following may only be understandable by person who knows Hindi)

1. Jahan bhi chhote e ki matra hoti hai wo baad waale akshar ke saath jud jaati
hai. example - adhik becomes adki(a-dh-chhoti e-k). ie *chhoti e* itself does
not change but shifts forward. Please note that I did not get this problem in MS
IE-5

2. Jahan bhi akshar aadha aana chahiye(example *shulk* mein la, *prakash* mein
ra etc) wahan wo akshar halant ke saath dikhayi deta hai. This problem occurs
with MS IE 5 also. 

I have all the requiste fonts including the full MS Arial Unicode font(23 MB).
I don't know about other platforms but I have access only to Win 98SE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Niklas Dougherty]

Attachment: dump

Attaching a Mac OS X dump. Is it incorrectly rendered here too?

Comment 2

[Arthit Suriyawongkul]

Hindi speaker needed for confirming this bug.

Comment 3

[Nitin Kumar]

>------- Additional Comment #1 From Niklas Dougherty 2002-11-12 15:46 ------- 
>Created an attachment (id=106034)
>dump
>
>Attaching a Mac OS X dump. Is it incorrectly rendered here too?

Yes. Same two mistakes.

Comment 4

[Niklas Dougherty]

Bug 157967 will clarify Mozilla's problem. Unfortunately, Mozilla.org doesn't
prioritize "international" stuff such as Unicode (The term "international" is a
misnomer in this context). As long as A-Z renders better than in Exploder and
the limited feature set of WIN-DOS is followed everything seems to be fine in
Mozilla.org's eyes.

Bug 157967 has been futured, which realistically means that this bug will not be
fixed until uncle Bill ships his Longhorn in 2008 or so.

Comment 5

[Jungshik Shin]

If this is about Mozilla under Win9x/ME, this bug is a duplicate
of bug 166520. See my comment there for details.
 
If it's about MacOS X, please change the OS/platform to Mac OS X.

Complex script rendering is highly dependent on OS/platforms
and toolkits. That is, exactly the same binary of Mozilla
can render Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Old Korean and other complex
scripts just as well as MS IE6 under Win 2k/XP while it cannot
under Win9x/ME.  

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

For Windows 9x/ME, see bug 166520. For Mac OS X, see bug 205476 and  
bug 121540.  See also Mozilla 1.4 int'l release notes at
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/known-issues-int.html

On Win XP/2k, Devanagari is rendered well. 

Because I can't make this as dupe of both 166520 and 205476, I'm just making
this as a dupe of bug 166520.

BTW, if you want to render Devanagari rendered well right now on Windows 9x/ME,
you may try SILA (http://sila.mozdev.org).




*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166520 ***

Comment 7

[pop.tricky]

Install this and it will resolve the issue

sudo apt-get install fonts-indic