Random missing non-Latin fonts in Firefox on OS X?
December 18, 2006 1:18 PM Subscribe
How can I get certain non-Latin fonts to show up as display options in Firefox on a Mac?
I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.8 on OS X (10.4.8 Tiger) on a MacBook I bought this October, and there are a bunch of fonts that do not appear on the drop-down lists of fonts in the Preferences window. All but three of these fonts appear among Safari's font choices. The entire list of missing fonts (that appear in FontExplorer X but not in Firefox > Preferences > Content > Fonts & Colors > Advanced) is:
*Fonts that don't appear in Safari's preferences, either.
I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.8 on OS X (10.4.8 Tiger) on a MacBook I bought this October, and there are a bunch of fonts that do not appear on the drop-down lists of fonts in the Preferences window. All but three of these fonts appear among Safari's font choices. The entire list of missing fonts (that appear in FontExplorer X but not in Firefox > Preferences > Content > Fonts & Colors > Advanced) is:
- .Aqua Kana*
- .Keyboard*
- Al Bayan
- Baghdad
- Corsiva Hebrew
- DecoType Naskh
- Devanagari MT
- Gujarati MT
- Gurmukhi MT
- KufiStandardGK
- LastResort*
- Mshtakan
- Nadeem
- New Peninim MT
- Raanana
- Sathu
*Fonts that don't appear in Safari's preferences, either.
Response by poster: Sadly, no. For some odd reason, Hindi and Devanagari don't appear as language options in that preference pane, so I chose Gujarati and made it first on the list. There was no change at all (using Gujarati language and its counterpart on gu.wikipedia.org as test cases). Still a bunch of question marks where something legible ought to be.
The ironic part is that the article name in the Gujarati Wikipedia shows up in Gujarati script in both the title bar and the list of recently visited pages in the Go menu. But not in the history sidebar or anywhere else.
posted by skoosh at 8:43 PM on December 19, 2006
The ironic part is that the article name in the Gujarati Wikipedia shows up in Gujarati script in both the title bar and the list of recently visited pages in the Go menu. But not in the history sidebar or anywhere else.
posted by skoosh at 8:43 PM on December 19, 2006
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posted by ardgedee at 4:55 PM on December 18, 2006