On 2010-02-03, Girish Kulkarni <gir...@hri.res.in> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I decided to go ahead and try Google Chrome (4.0.249.43) on my laptop,
> which runs Lenny. My usual browser is Iceweasel (3.0.6).
>
> A pleasant surprise in Chrome was a much better rendering of the
> Devanagari script:
>
> http://athene.org.in/girish/pango.html
>
> Iceweasel leaves gaps in ligatures and places letters unevenly so that
> text in Hindi or Marathi, for instance, looks ugly. Both browsers use
> Pango to render Indic scripts. (Same font is used in the above
> example.) Could someone please explain why the difference then?
>
> Remarkably, the Iceweasel version that came with Etch used to render
> Devanagari well. Exactly like Chrome here. Since Iceweasel is my
> preferred browser otherwise, I wonder if there's something I can do to
> improve Devanagari rendering in it?
>
> Thanks,
> Girish.
>
I come from the other direction: I prefer font rendering in Iceweasel
compared to Chrome. When I investigated the difference I came across this
bug report
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18159
Basically the difference is that Chrome repects the XSETTINGS
configuration but not the detailed fontconfig settings. If you are
running both browsers in a GNOME session then Chrome will use XSETTINGS.
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