428564 - Dropdown boxes are too tall because of special characters, e.g. Hindi

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 402239

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Screenshot of issue on nightly

Seen using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008041104 Minefield/3.0pre. Also seen on Win XP.

STR:
1. Visit site in URL.
2. Observe that the dropdown box appears too wide for the content. If you compare it to Safari or IE, it lays out properly. Screenshots attached.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Screenshot on Safari

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Attachment: Simpe testcase

It seems to happen when characters from Hindu are used like that way:
<option value="hi">हिन्दी</option>

If you put this line into a textarea you can also notice that the caret height is increased by a half. This could be the cause why the box is too tall.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

The bug probably depends on platform / which fonts are installed -
attachment 315179 [details] works for me on Linux.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Testcase #2 (shows the problem on Linux, but not OSX)

Comment 5

[Brian Polidoro]

Dupe of bug 402239?