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:
Created attachment 256391 [details] Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox with http://ml.wikipedia.org (Fedora 7)
Created attachment 256411 [details] Screenshot of Mozilla Firefox with http://ml.wikipedia.org (Fedora 8)
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242016 ***