264420 - Cannot view web sites in languages other than English

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165508

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ravi Kanth Chintakunta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Try to view the Telugu web site indicated in URL above. The fonts do not display
well. Not sure how to set up the browser to view the fonts.

The fonts for that web site is available in my windows fonts folder, as the same
page displays well in IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit above URL
2. Page does not display well.
3.

Actual Results:  
The web site does not display well.

Expected Results:  
The web site should display well

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Ofcourse you see other languages than English. French for example, or Turkish,
or Chinese or Japanese.

But there's a general problem with languages that use downloadable fonts (mostly
languages from India). See the explanation in
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=hsivonen-DB80E6.13074018082002%40news.jippii.fi&output=gplain

We expect that the website uses Unicode, not downloadable fonts (see bug 52746).
I've duped this bug to one which contains a workaround.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165508 ***