204637 - Bad Arabic font viewing with RH9 and Xfree86 4.3.0

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Alan Bachumian]

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

In RH9 that ships with XFree86 4.3.0 there is a serious problem with viewing
fonts. For example, this tag : <font face=Tahoma size=2> will show a normal size
(10) font in last version of RH and Mozilla. But in RH9 , it show font like a
"Microb" !!! I need to Zoom to 200% or more and change settings (Apperance->Min
Font Size to 12 or 13) to correct problem.
As you know, in XFree86 4.3.0 , Xft is mixed with XFree86, I think that maybe
problem is from that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run your browser
2.Go to an Arabic/Farsi site like http://www.talareweb.com
3.will see problem clearly!

Actual Results:  
I described above.

Expected Results:  
I described above.

My PC:

RH Linux Release 9 with XFree86 4.3.0

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a RH9 font problem, not a BiDi problem....

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

Have you tried setting Apperance-> Fonts -> Fonts for:Arabic-> Min Font Size ?
I can't read Arabic/Farsi but I was able to make the min. font 24 which looks
readable.:)
My nightly 2003050605 Mozilla font size is the same size as my day old cvs
w/GTK2/XFT.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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