reassign 356106 firefox close 356106 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1 thanks On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:01:22PM +0100, Peter Mukunda Pasedach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:03:45AM +0100, Peter Mukunda Pasedach <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm just trying to understand better where the problem of > > > incorrect rendering of indic fonts in firefox comes from. Do I > > > understand it correctly that firefox uses pango for font > > > rendering? I was trying to see what other packages use pango, > > > it seems abiword also does, I tried to edit a text file in > > > utf-8 with some hindi in it, and I get exactly the same > > > rendering. > > > > the mozilla-firefox package (version 1.0.7) doesn't use pango, while > > firefox (newest 1.5 releases) use it. It is known that the firefoxes > > using pango have better rendering of indic scripts, though not having a > > clue about it myself, I can't tell you ;) > > maybe it doesn't use it, but it does depend on it, that's why > I thought to try it. And the test with abiword gave me the > same wrong rendering, so I thought that could be the reason.
Actually, depending on pango is not enough. That might be pulled by the gtk dependency... > > Anyway, I'd recommend you to try out the firefox package from unstable. > > ok, did that, didn't need any further packages from unstable > to install. And it does seem to render indic fonts correctly > now. Ok, thanks. Closing the bug as for versions that use pango by default. Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
