Comment 19 for bug 23267

Alexander Sack asked:

> So what font settings do you have to choose to make firefox detect it properly?

I didn't have to make any changes at all to Firefox's default settings to have Hebrew text show up. If, by "properly", you mean settings that would cause vowel-pointed text to show up properly, I still haven't seen this sort of text displayed properly in Firefox on an Ubuntu system -- though it shows up just fine in Firefox on a Windows system.

Note that Hebrew text without "vowel points" looks fine in Firefox on Ubuntu. Most modern Hebrew text is written without those extra dots and lines (native speakers generally know which vowels are required in which words without needing visual cues). However, in those examples of Hebrew text that do include vowel points (such as sacred texts, or rare cases where vowels must be indicated in ordinary text as the only way to resolve an ambiguity), it is essential that they are positioned correctly, or else there is a bug that needs to be fixed.

> BTW, are you running hebrew ubuntu?

No. I'm running an English-language installation of Ubuntu.