Nadav Har'El wrote on 2003-09-21: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote about ""Jumping" hebrew letters in > mozilla": > > Recent mozilla versions (as well as firebird/thunderbird) show hebrew > > letters with different size for each letter. I remember it's a known > > fixable problem, could somebody point me at the fix? I can't stand it > > any longer ;-). > > Could this perhaps not be caused by Mozilla, but rather by your use of > Redhat 9 which includes a broken font with only some (!) of the Hebrew > letters in it? This problem was reported (and a fix suggested) on ivrix-discuss > and maybe on this list a while ago. > Indeed. I thought the problem was in RH's hebrew-fonts, which I replaced by culmus-fonts, so I thought it can't be it. But I found Dov's explanation__ of the problem, it's in Nimbus Mono L, part of urw-fonts.
__ http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/hebrew_in_rh9.html > Does anyone know if Redhat are planning to fix that idiotic font problem > in the next version? Are they even aware of this problem? > Yes, Dov's page has a link to the bug he submitted and it's already closed because urw-fonts-2.1 fixes it. Works for me. http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=urw-fonts Dov, please replace your recommendation to downgrade it with a recommendation to upgrade... And thank you for the info and the local.conf file. -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
