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Indic Scripts do not render properly in Firefox 3.6.13.

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I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on Macintosh OS X 10.6.6. Visiting BBC Hindi results in a page full of empty boxes instead of text. The website displays properly in Safari and the script appears in the title bar. I have also set the encoding to UTF-8. Unicode-compatible fonts are installed.

I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 on Macintosh OS X 10.6.6. Visiting BBC Hindi results in a page full of empty boxes instead of text. The website displays properly in Safari and the script appears in the title bar. I have also set the encoding to UTF-8. Unicode-compatible fonts are installed.

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Do you have that problem with other languages as well?

Try to disable website fonts and select another default font as a test.

  • Firefox > Preferences > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"

You can do a check for corrupted fonts and other font issues:

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I have it with a few. Devangari, Tamil, Gujrati, Bengali, and Tibetan. Others work fine. I'm at a loss as to why it's these specific languages.

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Did you try my above suggestion to choose another font for that page?

If the font works in the title bar but not on web pages then there can be a problem with the font on those web pages.