Closed Bug 179804 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Unicode text(Language Hindi) not displayed properly

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

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166520

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(Reporter: ntb, Assigned: prabhat.hegde)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/translations/hindi.html This page and other pages using Unicode UTF-8 encoding are not displayed properly. I am specifically talking about webpages written in Indian language, Hindi and using unicode encoding. Although much of the page is displayed correctly the problems are - (The following may only be understandable by person who knows Hindi) 1. Jahan bhi chhote e ki matra hoti hai wo baad waale akshar ke saath jud jaati hai. example - adhik becomes adki(a-dh-chhoti e-k). ie *chhoti e* itself does not change but shifts forward. Please note that I did not get this problem in MS IE-5 2. Jahan bhi akshar aadha aana chahiye(example *shulk* mein la, *prakash* mein ra etc) wahan wo akshar halant ke saath dikhayi deta hai. This problem occurs with MS IE 5 also. I have all the requiste fonts including the full MS Arial Unicode font(23 MB). I don't know about other platforms but I have access only to Win 98SE. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
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Attaching a Mac OS X dump. Is it incorrectly rendered here too?
Hindi speaker needed for confirming this bug.
>------- Additional Comment #1 From Niklas Dougherty 2002-11-12 15:46 ------- >Created an attachment (id=106034) >dump > >Attaching a Mac OS X dump. Is it incorrectly rendered here too? Yes. Same two mistakes.
Bug 157967 will clarify Mozilla's problem. Unfortunately, Mozilla.org doesn't prioritize "international" stuff such as Unicode (The term "international" is a misnomer in this context). As long as A-Z renders better than in Exploder and the limited feature set of WIN-DOS is followed everything seems to be fine in Mozilla.org's eyes. Bug 157967 has been futured, which realistically means that this bug will not be fixed until uncle Bill ships his Longhorn in 2008 or so.
If this is about Mozilla under Win9x/ME, this bug is a duplicate of bug 166520. See my comment there for details. If it's about MacOS X, please change the OS/platform to Mac OS X. Complex script rendering is highly dependent on OS/platforms and toolkits. That is, exactly the same binary of Mozilla can render Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Old Korean and other complex scripts just as well as MS IE6 under Win 2k/XP while it cannot under Win9x/ME.
Blocks: 209243
For Windows 9x/ME, see bug 166520. For Mac OS X, see bug 205476 and bug 121540. See also Mozilla 1.4 int'l release notes at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/known-issues-int.html On Win XP/2k, Devanagari is rendered well. Because I can't make this as dupe of both 166520 and 205476, I'm just making this as a dupe of bug 166520. BTW, if you want to render Devanagari rendered well right now on Windows 9x/ME, you may try SILA (http://sila.mozdev.org). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166520 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: Layout: CTL → Layout: Text
QA Contact: arthit.suriyawongkul → layout.fonts-and-text

Install this and it will resolve the issue

sudo apt-get install fonts-indic

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