Comment 68 for bug 37828
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| Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: [Bug 37828] Re: Text rendered incorrectly in presence of ligatures and justified text | #68 |
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(Get the code!)
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 19:04 +0000, Ben Laenen wrote:
> You can just disable the ligatures in the fonts if you want, it's not
> hard. We disabled them in DejaVu for a long time because of this bug.
> But since there was no move towards fixing it we just enabled them again
> because we cannot cripple our fonts just because of one buggy program.
> If packagers want to do it, I'm not stopping them, but I'd rather see
> them patching a Firefox bug instead of removing features from our fonts.
>
Indeed, this is Firefox's problem, and the fact that this bug hasn't
been fixed since it appeared in Dapper shows that Mozilla don't think
much of Linux issues.
The same goes for the GTK+ themeing.
Sorry this is a rant, I'd rather have WebKit.
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Bruce Cowan <email address hidden>