The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Firefox Displaying Arabic Text Incorrectly

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by BoldExtreme, Sep 4, 2011.

  1. BoldExtreme

    BoldExtreme Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    170
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Arabic text characters are all connected one to another in a word, but FireFox displays the letters right, except they are disconnected and each letter is on its own, making it very difficult if not impossible to read.

    What I used to do in the past is, pages that contain Arabic Text for me such as Facebook, I used to install IETAB2 and set facebook to always open with IETAB and then the text would display correctly.

    The strange thing is, if you use IE, it would display the same garbage isolated Arabic letters, but the IETAB with IE7 emulation works like a charm.

    With that said, recently, FF stopped displaying arabic text correctly even with IETAB2

    But Google Chrome always works like a charm without the need for anything.

    I have tried changing the encoding on the site but that doesn't help

    Can anyone suggest anything please?

    Google Chrome, Correct display of Arabic Text:

    [​IMG]



    FireFox with IETAB or without, same result:

    [​IMG]
     
    BoldExtreme, Sep 4, 2011
    #1
  2. BoldExtreme

    BoldExtreme Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    170
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    This problem happened on FF 6.0.1, and FF 6.0.2, but FF now automatically updates to the latest version so I cant help but upgrade
     
    BoldExtreme, Sep 4, 2011
    #2
  3. BoldExtreme

    BoldExtreme Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    170
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Tried downgrading to Firefox v3.6.21 but even that didn't help. Back to Chrome :(
     
    BoldExtreme, Sep 4, 2011
    #3
  4. Risco

    Risco Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    118
    Messages:
    1,097
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Risco, Sep 4, 2011
    #4
  5. BoldExtreme

    BoldExtreme Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    170
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Its a fresh install mate. :confused: freshly formatted windows and newly installed FF

    The problem happened since last week and never stopped, so i formatted, but that didnt help
     
    BoldExtreme, Sep 4, 2011
    #5
  6. BoldExtreme

    BoldExtreme Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    170
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Anything other than UTF-8 will just display as jibberish.

    But the problem with UTF-8 is that the Arabic letters are not linked one to the other, each one is seperated, makeing it very difficult to read.

    What's even weirder is, I checked with Chrome, which displays Arabic Text just fine, and it is also using the UTF-8 encoding but it works!? Please help as I don't want to use Chrome :(
     
    BoldExtreme, Sep 5, 2011
    #6
  7. nu_D

    nu_D Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    741
    Messages:
    1,577
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I did some testing on my Firefox install and Arabic text doesn't exhibit that issue as far as I can tell.

    Did you try running it without any add-ons? Are you doing anything in Firefox prior to looking at the Arabic text? You're doing something wrong. Trace your steps backwards and try to figure it out...
     
    nu_D, Sep 5, 2011
    #7
  8. Risco

    Risco Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    118
    Messages:
    1,097
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Risco, Sep 5, 2011
    #8
  9. BoldExtreme

    BoldExtreme Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    170
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    I fixed it guys! Someone at the Mozilla forums posted the solution and it worked perfectly!!!!!!

     
    BoldExtreme, Sep 6, 2011
    #9