Bug 9850

Summary:	DejaVu Sans in Firefox problem with double f's
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Alberto González <luis6674>
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Screenshot showing the problem

Description Alberto González 2007-02-02 05:51:55 UTC

After upgrading to DejaVu 2.13 I have a problem with the fonts in Firefox. When there are 2 f's they overlap the next letter making it unreadable. This happens only if there is an align="justify" tag, and only in Firefox (not in Konqueror, for example). Upgrading to 2.14 doesn't solve the problem, but downgrading to 2.11 solves it (I can't say about 2.12, though).

I use Arch Linux current with KDE and with antialiasing and full hinting.

I attach a screenshot taken from osnews.com

Comment 1 Alberto González 2007-02-02 05:52:43 UTC

Created attachment 8582 [details]
Screenshot showing the problem

Comment 2 Denis Jacquerye 2007-02-02 05:56:38 UTC

This is really a Firefox+Pango bug. The bug will also happen in justified text with other fonts that have ligatures.

The ligatures were re-enabled in 2.12.

Comment 3 Alberto González 2007-02-02 06:17:03 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is really a Firefox+Pango bug.

Ok, thanks. I'll report it there then.

Comment 4 Denis Jacquerye 2007-02-02 06:21:43 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > This is really a Firefox+Pango bug.
> 
> Ok, thanks. I'll report it there then.
> 

It's been there for a long time already:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331716

We're really hoping somebody will fix this where the bug really is.

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