493446 - Problem displaying Hebrew vowels/accents (nikud/niqud/niqqud) - sometimes drops character/s

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Ran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10

Words that contains Hebrew vowel accents (nikud) might be missing a letter or more, sometime the accent itself is missing.
Could not find a pattern for this bug.

Please compare this link which contains many sentences with Hebrew accents to how it is displayed on other platforms.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Check any site using Hebrew with accents,
I've tried the link above.
But might be reproduced using any other site.



Display the accents correctly.
Please not that there is also a minor bug on Windows platform,
when the accents don't show exactly above/below the letter itself but sometime make an unneeded space.

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Attachment: screenshot

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

This is what I get on my machine, everything seems to be in perfect order, can you point out exactly which nikud is incorrect?

Comment 2

[Ran]

Attachment: Screenshot 1 FF3.0.10 on OSX10.5.7 - accents are missing

This a screenshot of the url above using Mac OSX,
as you can see some vowels (accents) AND letters are missing (I think these are letters with accents).

Comment 3

[Ran]

Attachment: Screenshot 2 FF3.0.10 on Windows - no accents are missing, but there are spaces (after HOLAM)

As you can see here, the same page opened on WinXP shows the accents and the letters which were missing on a Mac.

Comment 4

[Ran]

Attachment: Screenshot 3 FF3.0.10 on Windows using IE TAB - works fine

Comparing to the way the page should be presented using IE

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I can't reproduce this on OS X 10.4. I thought I had seen another report about problems with Hebrew diacritics on 10.5 with specific fonts, but I can't find it right now.

It's also possible that this is fixed on trunk by bug 389074.

Comment 6

[Ran]

I guess it is something with Mac OS Hebrew fonts.
Changed the FF default Hebrew font from Arial Hebrew to Arial and it solved the problem.
(Also solved the problem of the spaces).

Comment 7

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

1) Your IE Tab screenshot is using a different font.
2) The first attachment is missing complete letters (seems to be only a VOV when it is used as a HOLAM).
3) The space after the HOLAM is somewhat common in some of the Hebrew fonts I've had experience with.

Comment 8

[baruchstone]

Using Firefox 3.0.11 on OS X 10.5.7 I went to this Wikipedia page only to see the vowels all wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit_Shikma

A screenshot is located here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Basket_of_Puppies#Shin_vs._Sin

The Hebrew appears properly when using Safari.