241767 - Font not displayed correctly

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Abhijeet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Firefox crashes after adding any new extension and clicking on tools

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type www.esakal.com in address bar.
2. download subak font from the site to font folder..
3. Refresh the page.
     

Actual Results:  
99% of the text is displayed correctly , except the “$” string which is a error.

Expected Results:  
Should have showed all text correctly.

Got a microsoft error window , which said firefox has crashed.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

I think you've mixed text from your other bug 241769 into this one.  Did this
bug really cause a crash because of a missing font?  Does it really have
anything to do with adding an extension?

Comment 2

[Bob Firth]

Just to add a bit more info to what is happening here:
unicode character U+0024 is displayed as a space in the susak-1 font by other
programs e.g. OpenOffice.
"$" is the representation of this character in standard Latin fonts.

Comment 3

[Bob Firth]

Someone can correct me, but I think this belongs more in Browser->Layout: Fonts
and Text, so I'm moving it there.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Probably invalid.

Comment 5

[Bob Firth]

Not Sure why this has been moved to internationalisation, the font uses the
standard first page of unicode... so IMHO it's really just a font issue, just
because the glyphs happen to be in a different language shouldn't make a
difference, the same thing could occur with an English font that has the same
entry for the character U+0024. That's my 2c anyway.

Comment 6

[Jungshik Shin]

As dbaron wrote, this bug is very likely to be invalid. The page relies on a
hacked font that seems to put __incorrect__ glyphs at U+0024 and other code
points. Probably, the intent was to preserve the ASCII portion and to use the
'right half' of ISO-8859-1 (corresponding to U+00A1/0 - U+00FE/F) for an Indic
script used in the page, but apparently, the font doesn't preserve ASCII,
either.  (I couldn't figure out which link to follow to download the font. If
the reporter can give me the url, I'll download the font and confirm my
suspicion). Mozilla can't do anything with those kinds of broken/hacked fonts.  

Comment 7

[Bob Firth]

You could well be right. I wasn't trying to comment on the validity of the bug,
just where it should be filed (I think it's  font issue, not internationalization).

http://www.esakal.com/prog/frm_downloadfont.htm to get instructions for
downloading font. From memory I think it's the first one (Subak1) that is important.

Comment 8

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 248821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 105688 ?

Comment 10

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