355054 - Not able to view konani web sites

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[vejalla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

can't read kokan site

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the FF 
2. Goto any of konkan web sites

Actual Results:  
Site displayed on the browser is garbled

Expected Results:  
It should display kokan fonts properly

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Please provide an URL that shows the problem you are seeing.
"Goto any of konkan web sites" doesn't cut it.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, are you talking about the Konkani language (not Konani or Kokan), like explained on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konkani_language (kok in iso 939-3) ? Can you give us some examples ?

And what script would that be ? Devanagari, Roman, Kannada, Malayalam ? I think they all work in Firefox 2.0, at least on Windows : <http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/#links>. But we're still missing support for complex text rendering. You can see that here:
    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts#Check_for_existing_support>.

But font-support is different : we're not supporting dynamic (downloadable) fonts for instance, see bug 52746 and bug 70132. If the website uses UTF-8 encoding (and has the proper font), then we should be able to display the content.

PS : you claimed in bug 336059 that it works in Firefox 1.0 ...

You have the following choices: 

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

No response from reporter --> INCOMPLETE.
Reporter, if you still see this problem then please reopen this bug. Thanks!