** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => firefox (Ubuntu)
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** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
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Title:
Wrong font used to display Cyrillic text
Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
Ubuntu 8.04.3, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic, Gnome 2.22.3, Firefox 3.0.12
webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov
html: <span lang="ru" xml:lang="ru">Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич
Суво́ров,</span>
font: Verdana.ttf, modified 1998-11-12 07:18:40 (specified in Firefox
preferences)
In the Infobox to the right, the Cyrillic text "Александр Васильевич
Суворов" is displayed using the Verdana font, but in the body of the
page it is displayed using what looks like a very poor version of
Courier. It
This affects other Russian text on the same webpage, and I see it
regularly on other webpages with Russian text. However, I note that
oblique (="italic") Russian text on the same page is rendered
correctly.
I have checked to be sure that Verdana renders correctly in Open
Office Writer 2.4.1 and it does regardless of what style is used,
regular, bold, italic, or bolditalic.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 6 11:31:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686
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