Bug 187855

Summary: Ligatures displayed incorrectly in Firefox
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: petrosyan
Component: firefoxAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
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Version: 6CC: nicolas.mailhot, wtogami
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URL: http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/firefox-ligature.html
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Description petrosyan 2006-04-03 23:39:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
Firefox doesn't display the ligatures correctly. Need to have a font that
supports ligatures such as DejaVu for example. For a demo look at:
http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/firefox-ligature.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.5.0.1-9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install DejaVu fonts (or any other font with ligatures)
2. Go to: http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/firefox-ligature.html in Firefox

Additional info:
Look at the screenshot.
Comment 1 petrosyan 2006-04-03 23:39:53 UTC 
Created attachment 127264 [details]
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Comment 2 petrosyan 2006-07-07 02:43:28 UTC 
Created attachment 132037 [details]
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This bug has been fixed for Latin alphabet but it still happens for Armenian
alphabet. Attaching a sample HTML file demonstrating the bug for DejaVu Sans
justified case.
Comment 3 petrosyan 2006-09-05 03:48:03 UTC 
It is better to track this bug upstream at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331716