270632 - Choppy font is displayed.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[srikkanth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The mentioned above uses the font for one of the Indian languages "Telugu". In
order to view the site clearly one has to download the font and install. I have
downloaded the font and installed it in Fedora Core 3. When i view the page the
font is choppy in the sense that there are some embedded unreadable characters
displayed. However, if i copy and paste the text from the browser onto
staroffice (or openoffice) the font is displayed clearly without any issues. 

To give you little more history, i have been using Mozilla for last four years
and firefox from its phoenix days and i love both of them. The problem that i
have just mentioned is persistent from the beginning on Linux platform. The page
is displayed properly in Windows based Firefox and Mozilla.

I am not sure if the font is specific to the OS but again the same page is
displayed properly in staroffice on Linux. The site that i have mentioned is
just an example and there are some other sites which use "Telugu" font that show
the similar behaviour. However, i have to mention about two sites whose fonts
works just fine and those are http://www.vaartha.com and http://www.eenadu.net.
Font will be very clear when i do "View->Character Coding-->Western". The same
trick did not work for the web site i have mentioned in the URL box above.

Thanks

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just go the website mentioned. Prerequisite is that the font must be available.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Font is choppy

Expected Results:  
Font should have been displayed clearly.

Comment 1

[Malini Adiraju]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
> 
> The mentioned above uses the font for one of the Indian languages "Telugu". In
> order to view the site clearly one has to download the font and install. I have
> downloaded the font and installed it in Fedora Core 3. When i view the page the
> font is choppy in the sense that there are some embedded unreadable characters
> displayed. However, if i copy and paste the text from the browser onto
> staroffice (or openoffice) the font is displayed clearly without any issues. 
> 
> To give you little more history, i have been using Mozilla for last four years
> and firefox from its phoenix days and i love both of them. The problem that i
> have just mentioned is persistent from the beginning on Linux platform. The page
> is displayed properly in Windows based Firefox and Mozilla.
> 
> I am not sure if the font is specific to the OS but again the same page is
> displayed properly in staroffice on Linux. The site that i have mentioned is
> just an example and there are some other sites which use "Telugu" font that show
> the similar behaviour. However, i have to mention about two sites whose fonts
> works just fine and those are http://www.vaartha.com and http://www.eenadu.net.
> Font will be very clear when i do "View->Character Coding-->Western". The same
> trick did not work for the web site i have mentioned in the URL box above.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Just go the website mentioned. Prerequisite is that the font must be available.
> 2.
> 3.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Font is choppy
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Font should have been displayed clearly.

On the main page of http://www.vaarttha.com/ Additional Characters Still appear
in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6. The characters appear fine on Internet Explorer. I think The
problem seems to happen with  just one alphabet of the font set. 

Comment 2

[Katherine Anne Stansbury]

I'm the one who first posted this bug. 
The problem went away on my Mac system after the next upgrade.
Thanks,
k

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Based on comment 2, resolving this bug as WORKSFORME.

Katherine, thanks for following up. If you see this again using the latest version of Firefox (2.0.0.3 at the time of this comment), please file a new bug with detailed steps. Thanks!