221041 - Does not display Bangla font properly

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[Muhammed Sharafat Kabir]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

The Bangla font in the website http://www.prothom-alo.net/ is not displayed
properly in Mozilla. It shows the English font properly but does not show Bangla
font at all(it only shows Bangla fonts on the homepage because they are in .jpg
format but in any other pages its not displayed properly). 

Note: The page is displayed properly in IE 6.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.got to www.prothom-alo.net
2.click on a button on the left column 
3.

Actual Results:  
A new page opens in the frame supposed to be written in Bangla font but its not
readable in Mozilla. Because it does not display the font properly.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the page properly.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like a CTL page...

Comment 2

[Alok Kumar]

Displays fine on mozilla firebird 0.6.1 Win XP
Displays fine on mozilla 1.5 Win XP
Can you post a screenshot?

Comment 3

[Muhammed Sharafat Kabir]

Attachment: Bangla font error display

I checked it again. It doen not display properly on Mozilla 1.5 rc1 for windows
XP. I attached a screenshot of this display.

Comment 4

[Alok Kumar]

Yes, for some reason it doesn't display the page properly. In any case it's not
a utf-8 encoded page. Does it require any special fonts? the encoding is windows
-1252.
Doesn't display properly on IE6+XP either.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 265968 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Ashraful Alam]

I used Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12)
Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1. I am using Linux Fedora Core Release 3 (Heildelberg) Kernel 2.6.9-1.667 on a Pentium 4 CPU 2.27 GHz (i686) with 384MB RAM. I am using the following browser with this setup :
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1

I noticed that following webpage is not at all intelligible / garbages with
this browser while they show correctly with IE6. 
http://www.prothom-alo.net/v1/newhtmlnews1/category.php?CategoryID=1&Date=2005-11-08

On the same machine with Windows XP (SP2) i used the following browser, I have noticed the same performance.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915
Firefox/1.0.7

However, this webpage show up correctly once those are viewed with IE. 
Even installing new fonts stated in the source of didnot result
anything differant with Firefox.I have tried changing Character encoding to
Autodetect but could not really determine which one to select. In IE I dont
have to select anything other than Selecting Encoding -> Auto-Select. I think
this may be introduced in the Firefox browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
It reproduces everytime. I have put details of it in the description I think
you can also make it.


Actual Results:  
Show garbages.

Expected Results:  
Bengali webpages.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Is this still an issue with recent Firefox builds ?