[Trac #884] Web activity has trouble with arabic and urdu fonts

Wed Mar 21 08:34:39 EDT 2007

#884: Web activity has trouble with arabic and urdu fonts
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 Reporter:  sj                          |        Owner:  marco  
     Type:  defect                      |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  blocker                     |    Milestone:  Trial-1
Component:  distro                      |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:  web activity fonts scripts  |  
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Comment (by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:12 behdad]:
 > Replying to [comment:10 tomeu]:
 > > Looks like the arab and urdu pages have wrong attributes in the html
 element:
 > >
 > > {{{<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"
 dir="ltr">}}}
 > >
 > > Changing 'en' to 'ur' or 'ar' makes those fonts appear correctly. The
 'ltr' bit looks to be incorrect also, but haven't found any difference
 when setting to one value or another.
 >
 > This means that some of the fonts you ship have crappy Arabic glyphs.
 We can hide them using fontconfig, but even better is to remove them.

 Sorry, what means we have some fonts with crappy Arabic glyphs?

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