On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 04:23:29PM -0000, Sergey Romanov wrote:
>
> The problem isn't limited to Firefox only, nor to applications that use pango
> (like Firefox and Abiword do). E.g. Opera, which I believe doesn't use pango,
> exibits the same behaviour. It's due to some complex interaction between the
> used font and application, so with some unlucky combinations of font and
> software it is much more pronounced. Ironically, the otherwise very high
> quality Microsoft Core Web Fonts deliver here some of the ugliest displays. I
> mean specifically the somewhat dated versions of these fonts from
> msttcorefonts, which are the only ones that are freely redistributable. When
> I replaced this version of Arial with that from Windows XP, the results were
> much better.
>
> This was described in detail here:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=115609793729861&w=2
>
> By now, I use Konqueror on the sites that display Hebrew or Arabic
> vowels.
>
Is this a font issue? Maybe you miss a font package?
Please try firefox-3.0 package in hardy and see if it renders your
cases better.
affects ubuntu/firefox
status incomplete
affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
status incomplete
- Alexander
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Incomplete
** Also affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Incomplete
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Hebrew Vowels Incorrectly Placed in Firefox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107261
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