650470 - Arabic letters are displayed disconnected (there is space between letters)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 635639

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[hkBattousai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

For some Arabic fonts, there is an undesired space after every Arabic letter. Maybe that's because of the vowels; vowels consume no space in vowelized Arabic, the just appear on other letters. But it looks like that vowels are consuming extra space which causes letters to be disconnected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Firefox 4.0
2. Visit "http://www.multimediaquran.com/quran/arabic/grammar/perfect.html"
3. Compare the text in the page in another browser
Actual Results:  
Letters are displayed disconnected.

Expected Results:  
Letters must have been connected.

This problem may appear to be the same with "Bug 635639" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635639). But the status of that bug is "RESOLVED FIXED", and this bug is not fixed, it is still on. I'm currently experiencing this bug.

Comment 1

[hkBattousai]

Attachment: Problem explained by comparing with in another browser

Comment 2

[hkBattousai]

Attachment: Problem explained in detail

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

This is fixed, as noted in bug 635639, but the fix was not included in the 4.0 release. You can get a newer build from the Aurora or Nightly release channels to resolve the problem.