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textarea broken - character "s" not displayed

Bug #31377 reported by meba on 2006-02-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #37828: Text rendered incorrectly in presence of ligatures and justified text. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,
i just found very strange behaviour of Firefox in Dapper.
When editing any textarea at any page, character "s" is not displayed in it sometimes. It is not fault of my keyboard, because it appears also when editing any text which contains "s". Many of these characters just disappear...
Using firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.1-1ubuntu2
Maybe i should add some screenshot? (It also appears that this bug is present only when using international characters, as ěščřžýžáíáé)

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meba (jakub-rtfm) wrote on 2006-02-14: Firefox screenshot

Firefox screenshot Edit (107.1 KiB, image/jpeg)

Attaching screenshot. On the right, there is text displayed by firefox as seen on the page (http://prodia.milackove.net/clanky/diabetikuv-balicek-pro-pripad-krize), on the left, there is "edit" page for displayed story and screenshot of textarea with missing "s" characters

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meba (jakub-rtfm) wrote on 2006-02-21:

Just found, that this bug exists only when using FreeMono font in textarea and the character is present in it, but isn't displayed. Is this bug of firefox or ttf-freefont?

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Alek Kowalczyk (thealx) wrote on 2006-03-26:

Do you observe the bug only if "s" is followed by "t"? ("st"), or also in other combinations of letters?
I made similar observation (but for 'st' pair only) at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/36324 .
Additionally, strange behavior exists also for FreeSerif font.