400962 - Marathi (Indian) Language does not appears grammatically correct on the browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Sumit]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

The Language/Font Support appears to be somewhat incorrect for Indian Languages, specifically, I use Marathi Language. The browser displays basic elements i.e. letters properly on the screen, but, the other elements are not displayed properly . The meaning of word or sentence changes drastically many times due to this. I have installed fonts required on my system, and the language is being displayed correctly in other browsers (IE) but not on Firefox. I am a mozilla fan but just because of this issue I have to use IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any Marathi webpage (e.g. http://www.esakal.com/)
2. Open the same in IE (I suppose this testing 
3. Get help of a Indian Language Specialist (Marathi one) to describe exact issue 
Actual Results:  
The language is not displayed as it should be. This is a serious bug in consideration of grammar and aesthetics of the language.

Expected Results:  
The page should display in correct language rules and regulations

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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Is it better on trunk?  Our text rendering code has changed a lot, partly in order to support more languages, so it's possible this is already fixed on trunk.

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

On 2.0.0.8 the rendering is greatly improved if you go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages and check the box for 'Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages'. IE (and Firefox trunk) has its own support for complex scripts, but 2.0.0.x uses the system support if it is installed.

This is probably a dupe of bug 212774

Comment 3

[Sumit]

Thanks Simon and Jesse for the quick feedback, The issue is resolved by the steps provided for installing language packs. This bug can be closed now.