202351 - Devanagari / Hindi / Marathi / Sanskrit text alignment not proper using "text-align: justify;", "word-spacing" or "letter-spacing"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 240914

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

Description

[Alok Kumar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

This is simulatable in Win XP with Indic, Win2K with Indic, Linux RH7.1 with
Indix on Mozilla 1.3
Other examples: 
http://stardataentry.com/hindi_book/home.html (click on the first link on the
left frame)
http://www.indiapress.org/dharma/ (The Hindi text at the bottom)
http://iceprincess.livejournal.com/2002/08/07/ (Devanagari
conversation text)
In case you need more information see  search google groups for
[e-mail]
Displayes fine on IE6 XP with Indic, IE5 Win2k with Indic.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you are able to see devanagari, by following the steps in
http://geocities.com/alkuma/seehindi.html
2. Go thru the thread
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=hi&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=cba03d0.0304132207.783e2176%40posting.google.com
3. Try http://members.tripod.com/~sunilbhadekar/justify-test.html
 or
http://www.indiapress.org/dharma/
or http://iceprincess.livejournal.com/2002/08/07/
or http://stardataentry.com/hindi_book/home.html
Actual Results:  
Mozilla is trying to "stretch" the words to make the display flush on
both ends, but it's breaking the words in the process, whereas it
should be messing only with the spaces in between.

Expected Results:  
See the juxtaposed screenshots of IE and Mozilla at
http://members.tripod.com/~sunilbhadekar/justify-test.html

Comment 1

[Timwi]

Attachment: Test Case

I think this bug is best demonstrated using a test case. I am attaching one
here. This test case is an HTML file with two table cells. Within the bottom
one of the cells, the Devanagari is rendered correctly, while in the top one,
the bug is manifested.

Comment 2

[Timwi]

Attachment: Screenshot of the test case

And here is a screenshot of what this test case looks like to me.

This bug is present both in Mozilla 1.5 (old, I know, sorry) and Firefox 0.8,
on Windows 2000.

Comment 3

[Timwi]

Just installed Mozilla 1.6 and the bug is still present.

Comment 4

[Christopher Whitt]

Unfortunately, I don't use one of the listed languages, so I can't confirm this
bug, but I did add the intl keyword (and correct a minor typo in the summary) so
hopefully somebody who can confirm will notice it.

Comment 5

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Confirming.

Comment 6

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** Bug 280956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Is this only in CTL builds? It is WFM on this Linux trunk build.

Comment 8

[Jungshik Shin]

Linux trunk build (gtk2+xft) doesn't render Devanagari and other complex scripts
correctly in the first place, whether justified or not. (see bug 215219 and bug
214715)

Comment 9

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Aha, ok. Thanks for the pointers!

Comment 10

[H P Nadig]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240914

is just the same. Mark this a duplicate of that or the other way round. 

Comment 11

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240914 ***