Hebrew fonts bad in firefox

Bug #64815 reported by Alex
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mozilla Firefox
Unknown
Unknown
firefox (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Medium
Mozilla Team

Bug Description

The fonts appear to be somewhat misconfigured. Try opening http://ynet.co.il, and see the fonts: the (obviously substitute) font that Firefox uses for that site is unreadable. On the other hand, Konqueror shows the same site quite fine, with a font that is obviously the one intended by the site designers.

Also there are other font problems. For example, the fonts I see on this page (launchpad.net) in Mozilla are not antialiased. Again, in Konqueror everything looks just fine.

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David Farning (dfarning) wrote :

Alex

Is this still and issue for you? I can not reproduce it.

Thanks
David

Changed in firefox:
assignee: nobody → dfarning
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Alex (gsasha) wrote : Re: [Bug 64815] Re: Hebrew fonts bad in firefox

> Is this still and issue for you? I can not reproduce it.
Yes, I just checked. The fonts that Firefox uses for ynet.co.il are bad (and
e.g., konqueror's fonts are fine).
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => David Farning
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

David Farning (dfarning)
Changed in firefox:
assignee: dfarning → mozillateam
David Farning (dfarning)
Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Alex (gsasha) wrote :

The problem is somewhat resolved now: I think that the fix was to install the
Microsoft fonts. However, note that under Konqueror, the page renders
correctly even without those fonts installed.
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Rich Wales (richw) wrote :

I just reported some problems with the placement of vowel points in Hebrew text in Firefox, with screen shots (see bug #23267).

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