[Bug 23267] Re: Default Hebrew fonts in Firefox are unreadable, ugly

Rich Wales richw at richw.org
Tue Apr 10 15:46:34 UTC 2007


Alexander Sack asked:

> So what font settings do you have to choose to make firefox detect it
properly?

I didn't have to make any changes at all to Firefox's default settings
to have Hebrew text show up.  If, by "properly", you mean settings that
would cause vowel-pointed text to show up properly, I still haven't seen
this sort of text displayed properly in Firefox on an Ubuntu system --
though it shows up just fine in Firefox on a Windows system.

Note that Hebrew text without "vowel points" looks fine in Firefox on
Ubuntu.  Most modern Hebrew text is written without those extra dots and
lines (native speakers generally know which vowels are required in which
words without needing visual cues).  However, in those examples of
Hebrew text that do include vowel points (such as sacred texts, or rare
cases where vowels must be indicated in ordinary text as the only way to
resolve an ambiguity), it is essential that they are positioned
correctly, or else there is a bug that needs to be fixed.

> BTW, are you running hebrew ubuntu?

No.  I'm running an English-language installation of Ubuntu.

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Default Hebrew fonts in Firefox are unreadable, ugly
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