Arabic fonts are bad
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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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://
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+
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
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.