723966 - Rendering of Indian language on Web pages is not correct in Fennec, while native (android) browser do properly

Status: NEW

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

Description

[A S Alam]

Attachment: Orange Mark showing Issue and Text showing correct

while browsing various local Indian websites, Rendering for Firefox Mobile is bad to read, while in-built browser rendering web context good enough. I tested on Samsung Note/Galaxy SII (and other) and SE Neo V. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/

http://www.google.co.in/ (select Indic locales to test)

Android Version - 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 (may be outside India Mobile don't have font or language support).

language: Hindi (hi_IN), Punjabi (pa_IN), Gujarati (gu_IN).

Attachment shows Rendering Issue with Orange

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Is this a font rendering issue? or is the translation wrong?

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Your screenshot was a built-in Firefox page, but you list fomr websites in comment 0, so I assume this is a rendering issue.

Can you make some screenshots of the web content too?

Comment 3

[A S Alam]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #1)
> Is this a font rendering issue? or is the translation wrong?

it is Rendering Issue.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

This is a known issue - there's no Indic support yet in the harfbuzz shaping engine we're using (see bug 619524), so no Indic languages will display properly.

(I believe most devices outside the Indian market - and even some within it - don't have any such support in the native browser either, but recently some manufacturers have started to provide it in their builds.)

Comment 5

[A S Alam]

#758236 fixed (Last Resolved: 2012-06-02 11:46:27). Waiting for 15 build to test.

Comment 6

[A S Alam]

Attachment: firefox 15.0a2 Punjabi Screenshot

with Firefox 15.0a1 (2012-05-12), Rendering for Punjabi and Hindi (only tested) is quite good. All text is readable

Comment 7

[A S Alam]

Attachment: Hindi Screenshot

Hindi Screenshot