Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 05:48:05PM +0100, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:59:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > > > > Jan Willem, > >

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-31 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:41:06PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > I'm not very fond of the idea to apply such a huge patch at this time of > the release process. > Well, fine then ... I fully agree. Just had the false impression that this was considerated for iceweasel :) - Alexander -- GPG

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Alexander Sack wrote: > Do we need/want this for ape and dove? Depends on what we want. Indian language printing is not important, of course, if the Indian subcontinent does not belong to the Debian target group. Likewise, MATHML printing is not important if scientists and students do not belong

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-31 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:59:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > > > Jan Willem, > > > > > > maybe you can do a rebuild yourself, with the patch? > > > > I tried, but I know har

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:33:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > > Jan Willem, > > > > maybe you can do a rebuild yourself, with the patch? > > I tried, but I know hardly anything about this "patching" > business. Some files are patched by debi

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote: > Jan Willem, > > maybe you can do a rebuild yourself, with the patch? I tried, but I know hardly anything about this "patching" business. Some files are patched by debian itself (from iceweasel_2.0.0.1+dfsg-2.diff.gz) when you apt-get source it. This obviously changes th

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-30 Thread Hendrik-Jan Heins
Jan Willem, maybe you can do a rebuild yourself, with the patch? Hendrik-Jan 2007/1/30, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Mike Hommey schreef: > OTOH, while it would be a good thing for users, we are a bit > late in the release progress to apply a so non-tested huge > patch. Pity.. st

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-30 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey schreef: > OTOH, while it would be a good thing for users, we are a bit > late in the release progress to apply a so non-tested huge > patch. Pity.. still, I'd like to test it. The latest firefox binaries from Redhat FC6 are supposed to have this patch, but they do not work on Debian

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:57:01PM +0100, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:55:30PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > > > I have a good and a bad news for you. The good news is all that will be > > > changed and a

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey wrote: > I have a good and a bad news for you. The good news is all that will be > changed and a unique backend will be used for everything, even windows. > > The bad news is that it's not going to happen before version 3.0. Tough luck indeed.. How about that patch by Behdad Esfahbod

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 09:55:30PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > I have a good and a bad news for you. The good news is all that will be > > changed and a unique backend will be used for everything, even windows. > > > > The bad news is that it's

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:25:59PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Mine is en_US.UTF-8. Note that I didn't have ttf-indic-fonts > > installed until recently, and the result was still the same > > when it was not installed. > > > > Mike > > I am so

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey wrote: > Mine is en_US.UTF-8. Note that I didn't have ttf-indic-fonts > installed until recently, and the result was still the same > when it was not installed. > > Mike I am somewhat red-faced now -- just realised I still had MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 in /etc/environment (because of my ea

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:14:14PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Interesting... See what I get... > > It may be a font issue... > > Now the plot really has thickened.. By the looks of it, you have > the same fonts (I have ttf-indic-fonts installe

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey wrote: > Interesting... See what I get... > It may be a font issue... Now the plot really has thickened.. By the looks of it, you have the same fonts (I have ttf-indic-fonts installed). I'd very much like to solve this. Could it be a locale problem? Mine is en_GB.UTF-8. Regards, Jan

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey schreef: > BTW, could you send a snapshot of what is displayed for you ? (to > compare to what I can see) OK; see http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/indic.png Look for instance at the "hook" thing (looking a little bit like "f" --actually it is the letter "i") in the first 4 rows; it should b

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 07:32:20PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > Okay, so I gave it a try[1], and... see no difference between > > CTL enabled or not. And seeing the code involving the ctl > > component, it seems to be used for the selection only...

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey wrote: > Okay, so I gave it a try[1], and... see no difference between > CTL enabled or not. And seeing the code involving the ctl > component, it seems to be used for the selection only... In > this light, I'm not sure it's really worth enabling... > > Mike > > 1. That was a bit more

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:28:52PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For which locales? I think if it is enabled for one UTF-locale it > should be enabled for all UTF-8 locales (UTF-8 being a "universal" > charset). I think they do it on a language basis. Mike -- To UNSUB

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mike Hommey schreef: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:23:15PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Package: iceape-browser >>> Version: 1.0.7-2 >>> Severity: important >>> >>> >>> http://en.wi

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:23:15PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: iceape-browser > > Version: 1.0.7-2 > > Severity: important > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:23:15PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: iceape-browser > Version: 1.0.7-2 > Severity: important > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts > > has a table ("check for existing support")

Bug#408528: iceape-browser: Indic scripts not rendered properly

2007-01-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Package: iceape-browser Version: 1.0.7-2 Severity: important http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Enabling_complex_text_support_for_Indic_scripts has a table ("check for existing support") which shows that "complex text layout" (CTL) for Indic scripts does not work correctly in iceape and icew