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

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Mike Hommey schreef:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:23:15PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel at planet.nl> 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") which shows that "complex text
>>> layout" (CTL) for Indic scripts does not work correctly in iceape and
>>> iceweasel.
>>>
>>> The package ttf-indic-fonts is installed, so the Indic glyphs are shown, but
>>> they are displayed in the wrong order.
>>>
>>> The above Wikipedia pages says "This [i.e. CTL display] will work only on
>>> Firefox compiled with ctl support. Only the firefox binaries supplied by
>>> Fedora Core 4 and 5, Ubuntu Linux, and Kate OS are compiled with this ctl
>>> and set this option, by default."
>>>
>>> So why not the Debian binaries? Quite a lot of potential users in India..
>> 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...
> 
> Also note that despite what is written on the page, Ubuntu does *not*
> have ctl enabled. Pango is, however. But not enabled at runtime for all
> locales.

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).

Regards, Jan