1206 - character entities fail erratically

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect, P2)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The character entities in the above URL (numeric codes for Latin-3 chars) fail
at a few seemingly random places.
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Comment 1

[kipp]

Could you qualify which entities are failing by making a test case?

thanks...

Note: this page has some other problems with placement of a what looks like a
floating-left div and with double list-bullets (reported on a different bug).

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I am unable to make a simple test case that exhibits this problem.  It seems
only to occur in complex pages, and there is no rhyme or reason to when the
entities fail (and turn into squares).  It occurs sometimes when looking through
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/pmeg , which also uses CSS stylesheets (and it uses
frames).

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Just to throw another test case at you: the first ldquo fails in:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/csstest/noncss.html

I see no pattern.

Comment 4

[leger]

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

Comment 5

[Paul MacQuiddy]

per leger, assigning QA contacts to all open bugs without QA contacts according
to list at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser

Comment 6

[kipp]

Currently this demonstrates a simple entity parsing regression - numeric
entities don't parse right; once that's fixed please reassign to erik so that he
can close this once the i18n font stuff lands.

Comment 7

[rickg]

David -- I think this is fixed now. Can you verify?

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Yup.  Verified fixed.