Bug 146541

Summary: [GTK] With pt_BR locale when GtkLauncher is launched from terminal, Indic text shaper appears broken with visibility of dotted circle
Product: WebKit Reporter: Sandeep Shedmake <sandeep.shedmake>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: Normal CC: bugs-noreply, mcatanzaro
Priority: P3    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Screenshot showing broken (underlined in red) text with Devanagari script. Screenshot also shows broken text in evolution-3.16.2.1-1.fc22 (uses WebKitGTK for message preview) none

Description Sandeep Shedmake 2015-07-02 00:12:26 PDT 
Created attachment 255996 [details]
Screenshot showing broken (underlined in red) text with Devanagari script. Screenshot also shows broken text in evolution-3.16.2.1-1.fc22 (uses WebKitGTK for message preview)

Description of problem:
With [pt_BR] locale, when GtkLauncher is launched from terminal, Indic text shaper appears broken (with visibility of dotted circle) for all the Indic scripts like Devanagari, Gujarati, Malayalam, Odia, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Bengali (India), Punjabi, ...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
webkitgtk-2.4.9-1.fc22
harfbuzz-0.9.40-1.fc22

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 22 - Workstation with Portuguese Brazilian [pt_BR] as preferred language.
2. Launch /usr/libexec/webkitgtk/GtkLauncher from gnome-terminal
3. Visit https://mr.wikipedia.org (for example)
4. Observe text shaping and rendering
  
Actual results:
Dotted circle is visible

Expected results:
Dotted circle should not be visible

Additional info:
Screenshot showing broken text is attached
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2017-01-14 15:03:36 PST 
Is this still broken with WebKitGTK+ 2.14? You can test with Evolution 3.22 in Fedora 25.