287799 - Hindi (Devnagari script) text-wrapping not perfect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Prashant Vaibhav]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When a Unicode page written in Devnagari script (used for Hindi and Marathi
languages) is rendered, the text in <p> tags (I'm assuming this), is not wrapped
properly, as compared to IE6 for instance. This makes some of the words in each
line overflow out of the bounds (on to images, e.g.).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just go to any Unicode webpage using Hindi (Devnagari) scripts
2.Also load the same page in Internet Explorer 6
3.Compare the text-wrapping of the paragraphs.

Actual Results:  
When compared to IE6 (which has perfect Hindi rendering), I found that ONE word
which should have been wrapped over to the next line is still left on the
original line, and only the next word is wrapped. For example (I'm typing in
English rather than Hindi for compatibility reasons. The problem only appears
with Hindi [devnagari] script.)-

In IE6-
This is an example of a sentence
which should be wrapped correctly.

In Firefox-
This is an example of a sentence which
should be wrapped correctly.

Expected Results:  
As you can see, the word "which" should be wrapped down to the next line. Most
often, there are other elements to the right of such a paragraph, like an image,
or another paragraph. The text then overlaps those elements of the page.


You can view an example page (linked above) and compare it with IE6 to see a
live example. This slightly buggy Devnagari wrapping causes the page's layout to
get malformed. I think fixing this bug will go a long way in establishing
Firefox as a more standards-compliant browser when it comes to international
audiences.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I see this bug in FF2, but not FF3. It would be nice to reftest it, if Devanagari fonts are available on the test boxes.