Bug 379431

Summary: Malayalam rendered incorrectly in Mozilla Firefox
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: libregeek <libregeek>
Component: pangoAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 8CC: eng-i18n-bugs, evuraan, fonts-bugs, lizhang, pnemade
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OS: Linux   
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Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox with http://ml.wikipedia.org (Fedora 7)
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Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox with http://ml.wikipedia.org (Fedora 8) none

Description libregeek 2007-11-13 05:58:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
The Malayalam rendering in Mozilla Firefox is very bad when compared with Fedora
7. There are a couple of new issues in fedora 8. The chandrakala, chillus, etc
are incorrectly rendered.

Please compare the screenshots attached.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pango-1.18.3-1.fc8
lohit-fonts-malayalam-2.1.5-3.fc8
fonts-malayalam-2.1.5-3.fc8
m17n-db-malayalam-1.4.0-6.fc8
m17n-contrib-malayalam-1.1.3-3.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://ml.wikipedia.org in Mozilla Firefox
2. The title bar itself is incorrectly rendered.
3.
  
Actual results:
Please see the attachment : Screenshot-Fedora-8.png

Expected results:
Please see the attachment : Screenshot-Fedora-7.png (Not perfect)

Additional info:
Comment 1 libregeek 2007-11-13 05:58:53 UTC 
Created attachment 256391 [details]
Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox with http://ml.wikipedia.org (Fedora 7)
Comment 2 libregeek 2007-11-13 06:00:26 UTC 
Created attachment 256411 [details]
Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox with http://ml.wikipedia.org (Fedora 8)
Comment 3 Rajeesh 2007-11-13 10:16:30 UTC 
Replacing pango-indic-fc.so in '/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules' directory in
Fedora 8 from the same file from '/usr/lib/pango/1.5.0/modules' directory
(pango-1.14.9) from RHEL5.1 solves the problem to some extent. It causes to
render Malayalam at least as good as in RHEL5.
Comment 4 Parag Nemade 2007-11-14 12:33:29 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242016 ***