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       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  Wrong font used to display Cyrillic text

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

  Ubuntu 8.04.3, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic, Gnome 2.22.3, Firefox 3.0.12

  webpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Suvorov

  html: <span lang="ru" xml:lang="ru">Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич
  Суво́ров,</span>

  font: Verdana.ttf, modified 1998-11-12 07:18:40 (specified in Firefox
  preferences)

  In the Infobox to the right, the Cyrillic text "Александр Васильевич
  Суворов" is displayed using the Verdana font, but in the body of the
  page it is displayed using what looks like a very poor version of
  Courier. It

  This affects other Russian text on the same webpage, and I see it
  regularly on other webpages with Russian text. However, I note that
  oblique (="italic") Russian text on the same page is rendered
  correctly.

  I have checked to be sure that Verdana renders correctly in Open
  Office Writer 2.4.1 and it does regardless of what style is used,
  regular, bold, italic, or bolditalic.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Aug  6 11:31:22 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.12+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

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