The stylesheet defines the Hebrew text as font-family: David
I don't know if David is an OpenType font. I know it is TrueType. I am
viewing the site on the same Windows XP Pro (SP2) machine using Firefox
1.5.0.4 and IE 6.0. I did a search on my system but I did not find
uniscribe.dll. How do I check if firefox is using uniscribe.dll? If
not is there an easy way to install it?
Thanks,
David Suna
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Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
Hi David,
Correct display of Hebrew with diacritics ("nukud") depends on two
factors. The first is having diacritic support in the display font.
The second is the ability of the display engine.
If the display font is an OpenType font with diacritics and GSUB and
GPOS table data for correct positioning of the diacritics relative to
the character glyphs, and the display engine is OpenType capable, then
the application should display Hebrew correctly with diacritics
(assuming the font is not buggy).
If the display font is not OpenType but has diacritics, and the
display engine has Hebrew capabilities (pre-Opentype uniscribe.dll,
unicows.dll), then the application should be able to display Hebrew
with diacritics placed under the center of the glyphs of the
characters that they follow in the base text. In-letter diacritics
such as the accent ("dagesh") cannot be displayed correctly.
So, to test to see if this is really a Firefox issue, you need to view
the text in IE and in FireFox for Windows using the *same* Windows OS
and the *same* display font (assuming that Firefox under Windows uses
the uniscribe.dll display engine). If the display appears different in
FireFox for Windwos that in IE and you are sure that the display font
is identical, then the problem is either that FireFox is not using the
uniscribe.dll display engine (might be using FreeType but not likely)
or that there really is a bug in FireFox.
Regards,
- yba
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, David Suna wrote:
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:55:05 +0300
From: David Suna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Another Firefox vs. IE issue
Once we are on the topic of sites that don't display the same under
Firefox and IE I have another question.
I have implemented a site that has Hebrew words (including nikud)
interspersed within English text. The problem is that under Firefox
the Hebrew words with nikud don't display properly. They display
fine under IE. For an example you can look at
http://www.tanakhprofiles.org/about.php. If you look at the first
bullet item under Stylistic Notes you can see what I mean.
Is this a bug in Firefox? If yes, who do I report it to? If not,
how do I fix it to display correctly in Firefox?
Thanks,
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