Why my Firefox doesn't display Cyrillic fonts well?

[Boris Samorodov]

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:19:20 -0700 Yuri wrote:

> I have this problem for a long time. Firefox shows all Cyrillic fonts
> with very large spaces between letters, almost the same as the real
> space character. So it's very difficult to read. Interestingly, Opera
> shows the same pages very neatly in different font looking very
> well. I attach here fonts section from my xorg.conf.

> What's wrong in my configuration?

> Yuri


> --- fonts section from xorg.conf ---
> Section "Files"
>        ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>        FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
>        FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/tmu/"
>        FontPath   "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
>        FontPath  "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu"
> EndSection

> --- cyrillic fonts installed ---
> font-cronyx-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org Cronyx Cyrillic font
> font-misc-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org miscellaneous Cyrillic font
> font-screen-cyrillic-1.0.1 X.Org Screen Cyrillic font
> font-winitzki-cyrillic-1.0.0 X.Org Winitzki Cyrillic font
> xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.4 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts

Install x11-fonts/webfonts and do apropriate changes to xorg.conf.
I have webfonts right after misc fonts at xorg.conf. That always
gave me good results.

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