273003 - Extra space between number and Hebrew text for "font: sans-serif"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294376

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

Description

[Uri Bernstein]

When the font is specified as "sans-serif", at certain font sizes, an abnormaly
large space appears between numbers and the Hebew text following them. The
amount of space seems to depend on the length of the following text. Selecting
the line leaves this extra space unselected.
Specifying the sans-serif font by name (e.g. Helvetica) eliminates the problem.

This is probably a Mac-specific issue (I don't remember seeing it on other
platforms), so the correct component might be "GFX: Mac".

Seen on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041202
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 1

[Uri Bernstein]

Attachment: testcase

The two lines should look the same (when the default sans-serif font is
Helvetica). The first line uses "font: sans-serif" and exhibits the problem.

Comment 2

[Uri Bernstein]

This is almost certainly just a special case of bug 294376 - in which I've done
some more research and given a better testcase. I'm closing this one as a
duplicate, at least until proven otherwise.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 294376 ***