295378 - Hindi font rendered improperly while it renders properly in IExplorer

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Brajesh Sachan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The hindi font(Character encoding-Unicode(utf-8)) at http://www.google.co.in/hi
renders incorrectly in Firefox, while Internet Explorer renders the font
perfectly with the same encoding. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open http://www.google.co.in/hi in Firefox
2.Open http://www.google.co.in/hi in IE
3.Compare the text at the "I am feeling lucky" equivalent button 

Actual Results:  
Firefox hindi font rendering was imperfect.

Expected Results:  
Should have rendered the text as in IE(perfect text rendering) 

There might be other unicode charactes that are rendered improperly. It would
have been a minor bug, had the IE not rendered it properly. But if IE renders it
properly, firefox should :-)

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

Confirmed with

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050502
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Guntupalli Karunakar]

works well with all recent firefoxes ( 1.5.0.7, 1.5.0.9, 2.0.0.1 ) on windows.

Comment 4

[Brajesh Sachan]

Firefox 1.5.0.9 rendering
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4315/firefox1509devnagrirenddg1.png

IE7 redering
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/8131/ie7devnagrirenderingyl5.png

I still see no improvement in devnagri font rendering. probably we need some 

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months.
:jfkthame, could you have a look please?
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Comment 6

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

OpenType Indic fonts work fine in current versions.