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Bookmarklet: Mozilla/Firefox unicode rendering bug

Bug #270012 is long time opening in Firefox and got bunch of duplicates. Tamil and other Indian texts are getting broken on "text-align: justify;"
Fix #270012
The above bookmarklet can be used on such broken pages to fix rendering and I've been using it for a long time. Though there is a Greasemonkey script available, I still prefer my bookmarklet as it is tidy.

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Anonymous said…
Just tested for Gujarati Script.It is effective but still some conjucts are nto rendered properly. Anyway nice to see dat.

Looking up for FF3 where they are said to be removed.

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