297163 - FX does not seem to have any support for Sinhala.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott Philp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

FireFox does not seem to have Sinhala support.  Sinhala is the national language
of Sri Lanka.  Don't know what else to say; seems to be an oversite.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to any site writen in Sinhala.
2.See all the ????? where the writing should be.
3.Sinhala is not supposted to look like: ????? ?? ????? ? ?????.

Actual Results:  
I saw ???? ???? ?????? ?? ????? ????.

Expected Results:  
If FX supported Sinhala, I would have seen Sinhala writing.
EG of problem: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/sinhala.html
EG of Sinhala writing: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D80.pdf

FX has great UNICODE support; this seems to be an oversight.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This is strange. I see the bug on Firefox on Windows, both 1.0.4 and Deer Park
Alpha 1, but not in my own Mozilla build, and not in any version on Linux.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Scott, what font are you using for Sinhala? The LKLUG font is not displayed in
builds up to and including Deer Park Alpha 1, because of bug 191919. 

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050609
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005060915

Fails on latest build too

Comment 4

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Again, with what font does it fail?

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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