Web-bugs: www.kalvisolai.com - see bug description

[sriram23]

URL: http://www.kalvisolai.com/

Browser / Version: Firefox 57.0
Operating System: Linux
Tested Another Browser: Unknown

Problem type: Something else
Description: Tamil fonts are not getting rendered
Steps to Reproduce:

_From webcompat.com with ❤️_

[karlcow]

bold tamil.

This is working for me but something happening for people on Linux it seems with tamil in bold.

[karlcow]

Duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407114

[karlcow]

Duplicate of #11422

[karlcow]

@sriram23 Could you help us diagnose a bit more the issue?

[sriram23]

Sure, @karlcow. Please tell me how I could help you.

[karlcow]

@sriram23 Fabulous 🏅

1. Download Nightly https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-nightly-latest-ssl
2. Restart with addons disabled
   
3. Go to http://www.kalvisolai.com/
4. Inspect the element with the contextual menu (right+click or ctrl+click) when hovering the text with the squares.
   
5. You get the inspector window.
   
6. Open the font panels
   
7. You should see something similar to
   
8. Write down the font and copy it here in a comment OR take a screenshot of this part. :)
9. Do the same thing for the part which has text working (the blue text under the squares in your case.)
   

Thanks a lot.

Also which Linux version do you use?

[sriram23]

@karlcow the link that you have provided https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-nightly-latest-ssl is for windows os I think. But I tried the same with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0. I have attached the screen shot with this comment.

I am using Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

[karlcow]

@sriram23 could you also do it on a part where the characters are properly displayed in the page?
Thanks.

[sriram23]

@karlcow Sure.!

[sriram23]

@karlcow This is the screenshot of Tamil fonts that are displaying properly.

[karlcow]

@sriram23 Thanks a lot.

[karlcow]

Added the findings of @sriram23 to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407114#c6
That should help.

[karlcow]

Thanks a lot @sriram23 This has been fixed.
You could check in the latest nightly build.

[kelimuttu]

Hi @sriram23 may I know your email address? We would like to send a t-shirt for you.

[sriram23]

Woow..
Thanks @kelimuttu .
My Mail Id: [email protected]

Always happy to contribute :)

[sriram23]

My Mail Id: [email protected]

[sriram23]

Even in the Quantum (57.0), I could see some Tamil fonts not displaying.

[sriram23]

This is a screenshot from Chromium Browser.