Ubuntu
firefox-3.5 package

Arabic fonts are bad

Bug #407813 reported by Rami Al-Rfou' on 2009-08-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #540042: Freeserif Arabic version is broken. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Firefox renders some of the websites like www.aljazeera.net [popular for Arabic users] in very bad fonts. I attached a screenshot of an article on aljazeera website [http://www.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/28F26579-EF82-4021-B495-4DE7D505E7AF.htm].
bbcarabic.com is displayed with better font quality but still not the quality of Microsoft Arabic fonts.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 2 00:18:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686

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Rami Al-Rfou' (rmyeid) wrote on 2009-08-01:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Rami Al-Rfou' (rmyeid) wrote on 2009-08-01:

Screenshot of aljazeera article Edit (81.8 KiB, image/png)

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Rami Al-Rfou' (rmyeid) wrote on 2009-08-04:

The chromium browser snapshot Edit (76.1 KiB, image/png)

I attached the chromium browser snapshot for the same page, it is apparent that chromium using the gnome default forn which is better than the firefox one.

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Usama Akkad (damascene) wrote on 2010-08-16:

seems like it's the issue with Freeserif Arabic version

Freeserif Arabic version is broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/540042