Bug 82504 – Font rendering in epiphany is buggy

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WORKSFORME
• Component: WebKitGTK

[RudraB]

I discussed the issue in irc, but failed to solve.
http://www.anandabazar.com is a newspaper site in bengali, an indic
language.
The rendering of the fonts in epiphany is wrong, as a screenshot
http://imagebin.org/205554 while firefox and chromium renders it
correctly as in http://imagebin.org/205555 .
The firefox and epiphany screenshot is attached.

[RudraB]

Created attachment 144774 [details]
Comparision of the rendering 

Here is Pic from the same page of the paper. 2 word is underlined for quick-view, but in most word you can see the difference.

[Martin Robinson]

Rendering seems very similar now that we share the same complex text rendering backend (HarfbuzzNG) as Chromium. I'm going to close this bug for now, but if you still see an issue with WebKitGTK+ 2.0, do you mind re-opening with a link to a filing page?

[RudraB]

Excuse my ignorance, but WebKitGTK+ 2.0??
In the website, I can only have upto 1.11!

[Martin Robinson]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Excuse my ignorance, but WebKitGTK+ 2.0??
> In the website, I can only have upto 1.11!

Sorry. I should have explained myself a bit better.  In trunk we switched to a new text rendering backend for complex text. This backend should be available in the next unstable release. The stable release following this unstable series will be 2.0. If you want to verify that this bug is fixed sooner, test with the next 1.11.x release.

[RudraB]

oh, ok!
Thanks a lot. Waiting eagerly.

[RudraB]

I can confirm that the problem is solved with webkitgtk3-1.11.4.
(I and OP are the same person...only changed the login)

[Martin Robinson]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for reporting.