Mozilla Firefox

  1. Bug #37828
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 37828

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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

Some more information:

1. the bug occurs with the FreeSans and FreeSerif fonts too. If this is a font bug, then it is one common to all these fonts.

2. The bug is not present with MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1, but it also doesn't use the available ligatures then. This isn't that interesting since the non-pango renderer breaks layout for other languages.

3. I got Ray Strode (from Red Hat) to test if the bug occurred with the Fedora firefox builds, and it turns out that they also exhibit the bug. I also got confirmation of the bug on various other platforms in the comments here:
    http://blogs.gnome.org/view/jamesh/2006/04/03/0

So this doesn't look like an Ubuntu specific bug.

I did up a simple example page that demonstrates the bug here:
    http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/firefox-ligature.html