Arabic characters look separated and they suppose to be connected

[Emad Elsaid]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Arabic characters look separated and they suppose to be connected
that problem appears in some sites like facebook

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 25 05:04:25 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.2+build6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[ANO (ali-fci)]

Hi Pedro,
I have the same problem using opera/firefox, some flash objects show Arabic characters separated not well shaped!
I believe it is an ubuntu problem as it works fine under windows using the same firefox/opera

Cheers
Ali

[faical117 (faical117)]

the same problem in ubuntu 9.10 upgraded from 9.04

[NasRat (nasrat87)]

same problem here , ubuntu 9.10 64bit clean install , the problem is in the flash player , I see Arabic fonts from left to right (where is should be right to left) and the characters are separated and not well shaped ,

~$ uname -a
Linux *****-laptop 2.6.31-16-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 3 22:07:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Firefox : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5

[Usama Akkad (damascene)]

the problem is not in Firefox but in Flash plugin

see the same bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/453965

[Mohamed Farag (mohamed-farag)]

Here too:

It's a bug in Flash. Either Flash player/Shockwave plugin for Firefox, or the player in general (i.e.: standalone and plugin).
..there have been discussions and bug reports on this issue since last year!
We need to escalate the issue upwards to developers of Flash..at Adobe..FOSS players' developers..any.

Here are:
Related bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/274236
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/453965

Related discussions
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1531974
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1355649

It is very obvious when viewing an Arabic video on Youtube, like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSmgjUN7Iuo&feature=related

Screenshot attached for the post-video related videos announcements, which shows the bug perfectly.

I use Firefox 3.6.10 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx on a P4 machine. Intel i386 Celeron 256 Cache - 1.5 GB RAM

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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