Bug #4337
Perisan/Arabic characters are shown separately
| Status: | In Progress | Start date: | 12/29/2014 | |
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| Priority: | Urgent | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | mikael | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | - | Spent time: | - | |
| Target version: | - | |||
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Description
This is how the text in screenshot should be shown:
??? ??? «:]» ?? ????. ? ?? ?? ? ?? ????? ? ?? ??? ?? ?? ??? ??? ?? ? ?? -?????????????? ?? ?? ???? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?????? ?? ??? ?? ??????? ?? ??? ????????? ? ?? ?? ????? ????.
?????? ? ????? ??? «????? ????» ??
History
#1 Updated by Hapoofesgeli about 3 years ago
- File Text.png added
This place seems to have more serious issues with these languages!
Anyway, i attached the original text as an image.
#2 Updated by hans almost 3 years ago
- Assignee set to carriestiens
#3 Updated by hans almost 3 years ago
Courier:
Same text correctly rendered:
#4 Updated by hans almost 3 years ago
- Assignee changed from carriestiens to ocdavid
- Priority changed from Normal to Urgent
I'm elevating the priority on this one since it makes Farsi and Arabic text very hard to read.
#5 Updated by mikael almost 3 years ago
- Assignee changed from ocdavid to mikael
I'll have a look at this.
#6 Updated by mikael almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
Any info on what device this is on? Arabic support is flaky at best for 2.x devices, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7962704/how-to-support-arabic-text-in-android.
I can't reproduce this on my device. Would be great with some more info on device and system language.
#7 Updated by Hapoofesgeli almost 3 years ago
This is on Samsung i9105p with Android 5 on it(CyanogenMod), Farsi & Arabic are supported even as system wide languages.
Also Courier shows the feed/post titles correctly and the issue only exist in showing up the actual content.
#8 Updated by mikael almost 3 years ago
- Assignee changed from mikael to carriestiens
Hm, I wonder if this has something to do with the Lucida Grande font we use. Googling gives things like this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435545
Carrie, where did we get the font? Maybe there is a similar font with Arabic support we can use?
#9 Updated by carriestiens over 2 years ago
- Assignee changed from carriestiens to mikael
If the Lucida Grande is causing the problem, we can switch to using the system font. I have no problem doing that if it fixes the problem. We got the 'Lucida Grande' font file from my computer. You can download it for free though in a number of places.
RE: Maybe there is a similar font with Arabic support we can use?
I'm not familiar enough with Arabic fonts to know what would be similar. The most important thing is that it's a nice font to read.
Mikael, do you want to try switching to the system font (roboto) to see if that changes the arabic rendering?