Re: Hebrew text rendering problem

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:31:00PM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:13 -0500, Christopher V. Kimball wrote:
> > 
> > I provide the public service site
> > 
> > http://www.tanach.us/Tanach.xml
> > 
> > of the Hebrew bible (Tanach) in Hebrew.  The site his based on Unicode
> > XSLT transformations and yields excellent rendering on all Windows
> > operating systems. 
> > 
> > Under (openSUSE 10.2) Linux the rendering with Firefox 2.0.0.2 is poor. 
> > When I enable pango via MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 the rendering improves a
> > great deal, but only for SHORT stretches of Hebrew text near about 30
> > Unicode characters.
> 
> If rendering is correct in gedit, then this is not a GNOME issue.
> However, you should try the Firefox shipped in Fedora Core 6 or better,
> Fedora development version.  They include lots of patches I wrote that
> improve Pango text rendering in Firefox.

Maybe this is the same as this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344856
?

How does the site behave with the "Ezra SIL" font?

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>