254473 - lang="ar" attribute changes font rendering

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Bill Mason]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040804 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040804 Firefox/0.9.1+

Elements with a lang="ar" attribute are rendering differently than elements with
different lang="foo" attributes, no with no lang attribute at all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See the testcase.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is by design. If you want Arabic to use the same font as English, you can
set it up that way in preferences.

If you are seeing more difference than just a different font, please reopen and
attach a screenshot.

Comment 3

[Jungshik Shin]

See also bug 227815 comment #1 (the last paragraph). On Windows, you can
fine-tune your font preference with font.name-list.xxx.ar where 'xxx' is serif,
sans-serif, monospace, etc. 

See also http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index.html#lang