[Bug 468898] [NEW] poor persian support in Karmic

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FreeSerif is the default Serif font in Firefox & epiphany on Karmic, this font has unreadable glyphs for Persian and maybe other nonlatin languages...
Jaunty didn't have this bug.

pmap grep ttf for firefox in Jaunty CD is:

b2285000 316 - - - r---- DejaVuSansMono.ttf
b2419000 300 - - - r---- DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
b24be000 560 - - - r---- DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
b4051000 324 - - - r---- DejaVuSerif.ttf
b48eb000 608 - - - r---- DejaVuSans.ttf

and pmap grep ttf for firefox in Karmic CD is:

aebc7000 1252 - - - r---- FreeSerif.ttf
b5628000 300 - - - r---- DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf
b5673000 560 - - - r---- DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
b60ad000 324 - - - r---- DejaVuSerif.ttf
b723a000 608 - - - r---- DejaVuSans.ttf


Screenshot for Jaunty which looks fine: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34758919/Screenshot-Jaunty.png
Screenshot for Karmic which is unreadable: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34759310/Screenshot-Karmic.png

** Affects: firefox
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Ubuntu Persian Translation Reviewers (ubuntu-l10n-fa)
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Invalid


** Tags: font
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poor persian support in Karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468898
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