Hebrew fonts not displaying properly

paul1149

I'm on Linux Lite, a ubuntu derivative.

At https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps+34&version=WLC;ESV, the hebrew characters in the WLC version do not all display correctly. Slimjet, another Chromium deriv, also displays them imperfectly. Yet the Epiphany browser displays them fine.

I have SILOT font installed on the machine.

Thanks,
Paul

paul1149

@Gwen-Dragon Mine looks exactly like that. Now here it is in Epiphany, which is WebKit based, on the same linux install:

It appears to be a non-breaking space that is at issue, because I don't see any missing characters.

I didn't see any font spec in Inspect Elements, and I didn't see any way in Vivaldi to check or spec text encoding for the page.

paul1149

If it works on Windows, then I suppose it's a Linux problem.

SILOT is a Hebrew font that I found in my Bible program, theWord, which runs in WINE, which has its own font stock. I took it and installed it directly in Linux. I'm not sure what other Hebrew-capable fonts are on board.

The odd thing is that Epiphany handles it well. I find it difficult to imagine that Epiphany, which is on the bare-bones side, would come with its own fonts.

Back to Vivaldi (1.9.818.50 (Stable channel) (64-bit), BTW), https://www.blueletterbible.org/wlc/psa/34/1/s_512001 displays the page perfectly. I see that it calls for the SBL_Hebrew font, but I don't see that installed on my system. Would this not mean that the system is not at fault? What's left, page encoding?

paul1149

Ok. First, here's a proper install of ezra-SIL hebrew font:
http://www.fontspace.com/category/hebrew

I did that and logged in again. No change. Then I specced Ezra-SIL-SR as V's "Standard" font, and the page immediately corrected itself without reloading - which I find odd.

The question I have is, why is V not finding a newly-installed appropriate font? It seems I shouldn't have SIL in my "Standard" font designation, and I don't see where else to put it. But then, it seems that having it there doesn't interfere with normal English pages.

Also, I just realized I have a couple of local style sheets that affect BibleGateway.com. But back to Open Sans as V's Standard font, I turned the style sheets off and it still displayed imperfectly.

paul1149

@dLeon said in Hebrew fonts not displaying properly:

Font on page:
All HTML, set default fonts.
For https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ps+34&version=WLC;ESV was Helvetica Neue",Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif

Thanks, that was helpful. It seems that perhaps the problem is that BibleGateway does not spec a dedicated Hebrew font for the page, while BlueLetterBible, where the Hebrew works, does. If it did, would V then look for a substitution? But then, Gwen says V displays correctly in Windows, so it can't be a site problem.

paul1149

I just install that directly to the system (before it was in user font folder). No difference.

paul1149

@dLeon said in Hebrew fonts not displaying properly:

For HTML specific page, we could change its default font with CSS userstyle. So we don't need to change browsers default font or even system default font.

Ok, I added "Ezra SIL SR" to my local style sheet, and the problem immediately resolved. I'll try to get to the bug report. Thanks again to both of you.

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