286750 - anandabazar.com - Cannot see fonts - completely illegible only in Firefox on both Windows 2000 and XP

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Bengali, defect)

Description

[nilgold]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Hello,

i am able to view this site by downloading a bitstream component for internet
explorer. In Netscape, i did not have to download anything - it worked showing
all Bengali fonts as necessary.

However, for Firefox, despite downloading the plugins as requested by the
browser, the problem remains. It probably seeks a flash plugin, but actually the
bitstream takes acre of the problem (for IE).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Key in the url http://www.anandabazar.com/
2. Hit Enter / Click Go


Actual Results:  
Cannot see the Bengali fonts in both on Windows 2000 and XP.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to read the newspaper by showing up the Bengali fonts, both on
Windows 2000 and XP.

Please contact me at [e-mail] to get further description of how the
fonts must look like. i can send in snapshots of what is expected.

Comment 1

[nilgold]

Attachment: This is what it should look like

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Reporter, when you file a TE bug, please follow the reporting guidelines.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm almost certain that

<META content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv=Content-Type>

is not a valid charset definition. The site needs to define a character set to use in this META tag. (I'm not sure which one is right, because I'm not sure what language they're intending to use.)

It's totally broken in all browsers other than IE on the Mac.

Comment 4

[nilgold]

Please have a look at: http://www.anandabazar.com/no_bangla.htm
It works perfectly with IE - uses dynamic fonts from Bitstream - a free download.

On a fresh install of IE, try the link - it will automatically ask you to download bitstream and seek permission for activeX. If you do it, works fine henceforth.

i have not tried Macs, but in the older days of Netscape, no download was necessary - it worked the first time.

Please follow up.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> It works perfectly with IE - uses dynamic fonts from Bitstream - a free
> download.

...which is why this is filed as a TE bug -- to get it to work with something OTHER than IE, which it currently doesn't.

Please contact the site as described in 

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#contacting

and let them know they're restricting their user base to only about 60% of the Internet.

Comment 6

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Page claims that it is now "redesigned" and "browser independent":

---
Dear Readers

We are happy to announce that our website is being updated technologically and it is now

l Browser independent
l Hardware independent
l Font independent

Our new address from now on: http://www.anandabazar.in

Please note that our ARCHIVE (till 31st May, 2011) is still in the old technology and might not

be visible to all our readers.
---

And redirects to http://www.anandabazar.in/ which looks ok to me, but should probably be verified by a Bengali native speaker.

Comment 7

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Problem not found
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0