Bug 190054 - [i18n] Thai line-breaking support in Firefox
Summary: [i18n] Thai line-breaking support in Firefox
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Whiteboard: FF3RawhideClose
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-27 04:27 UTC by Isriya Paireepairit
Modified: 2018-04-11 18:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-12-20 16:47:58 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation 7969 0 None None None Never

Description Isriya Paireepairit 2006-04-27 04:27:00 UTC
Description of problem:

Since Thai is in complex text language and need to work out in
line-breaking area (in brief, need extra library/dictionary for
line-breaking). This makes Mozilla.org to delay complete solution for
line-breaking related issues in Mozilla product (Firefox,
Thunderbird). Browser without line-breaking is nearly unusable for
Thai people.

Now there are some patches available using various approach. 
Ubuntu Dapper has included the patch that using libthai already. This patch
should work with Fedora as well and enable this patch in next version of Fedora
must benefit use in Thailand.

Additional info:

- Bugzilla issue is #7969
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7969
- Libthai patch is attachment #218666
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=218666&action=view
- This issue is also discussed on fedora-i18n mailing list
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-i18n-list/2006-April/msg00005.html

Comment 1 Isriya Paireepairit 2006-05-15 03:25:07 UTC
My team successfully applie patch 220509 to custom build Firefox for FC5. The
RPM is available for test at
http://ftp.opentle.org/people/mrchoke/fedora/fc5/RPMS.main/. Libthai package is
need as dependency (no need for libthai-dev).

Now how could we do next for include this patch to FC Firefox? Libthai package
is rarely changed and easy to maintain.

- most recent libthai patch
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=221289&action=view

Comment 2 Leon Ho 2006-05-26 07:15:47 UTC
Darshan, can you give it some test and review the patch and let Chris know on
the result?

Isriya, any words from when will mozilla upstream be accepting this patch?

Comment 3 Isriya Paireepairit 2006-05-29 04:38:05 UTC
Mozilla upstream tends to accept "cross-platform-solution" patch (which isn't
available now). I tried to get this patch review first but it may be too late
for Firefox 2.0.

Comment 4 Parag Nemade 2007-06-07 10:10:38 UTC
how to reproduce this bug? Any steps please.

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2007-12-20 16:47:58 UTC
We just updated the Firefox version in Fedora/development from 2.0 to a 3.0
pre-release version, which improves performance, memory usage, and fixes many
bugs and crashes.

Closing as CANTFIX since we aren't fixing bugs filed against 2.0 now that 3.0 is
in.  If this bug is still present in rawhide using a Firefox 3.0 version, please
re-open this bug.

Thanks and Happy Holidays


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