Hebrew fonts bad in firefox

[Alex]

The fonts appear to be somewhat misconfigured. Try opening http://ynet.co.il, and see the fonts: the (obviously substitute) font that Firefox uses for that site is unreadable. On the other hand, Konqueror shows the same site quite fine, with a font that is obviously the one intended by the site designers.

Also there are other font problems. For example, the fonts I see on this page (launchpad.net) in Mozilla are not antialiased. Again, in Konqueror everything looks just fine.

[David Farning (dfarning)]

Alex

Is this still and issue for you? I can not reproduce it.

Thanks
David

[Alex (gsasha)]

> Is this still and issue for you? I can not reproduce it.
Yes, I just checked. The fonts that Firefox uses for ynet.co.il are bad (and
e.g., konqueror's fonts are fine).
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => David Farning
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

[Alex (gsasha)]

The problem is somewhat resolved now: I think that the fix was to install the
Microsoft fonts. However, note that under Konqueror, the page renders
correctly even without those fonts installed.
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium

[Rich Wales (richw)]

I just reported some problems with the placement of vowel points in Hebrew text in Firefox, with screen shots (see bug #23267).