Issue 149809 in chromium: Tamil fonts are not rendered properly

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: OS-Linux Area-Undefined Type-Bug Pri-2

New issue 149809 by balakris...@gmail.com: Tamil fonts are not rendered
properly
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149809

Chrome Version : 18.0.1025.168
OS Version: Ubuntu 12.04
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Firefox 15: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open any website which displays tamil content. Eg. ta.wikipedia.org

What is the expected result?
The text should be displayed properly.

What happens instead?
The text is garbled. The characters looks like they are merged together It
is possible to understand if read carefully.

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

Attached:
1) screenshot from firefox (How it should look like)
2) screenshot from chromium.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.168 Chrome/18.0.1025.168
Safari/535.19


Attachments:
SampleInFirefox.png 4.7 KB
SampleInChrome.png 3.8 KB

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 149809 by balakris...@gmail.com: Tamil fonts are not
rendered properly
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149809

Tamil text displayed in Addressbar and tab title are ok. Only the text
within the page are garbled.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #2 on issue 149809 by balakris...@gmail.com: Tamil fonts are not
rendered properly
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=149809

http://naveen-ubuntu.blogspot.in/2011/06/linux-ubutu-tamil-fonts-rendering-in.html
has a solution. Is this a problem with ubuntu or with chromium?