Closed Bug 101405 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

showing the pi-symbol

Categories

(Core :: DOM: CSS Object Model, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: CSS Object Model
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33127

People

(Reporter: 64bit, Assigned: jst)

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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    20001091303

I've tried to use the pi-symbol in your browser without any luck... I've tried 
the symbol font and writing a P, but it does show a normal P, not the [pi]-
symbol. How come - can I use another method showing PI-symbol or is this a 
bug???

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. make an html-file containing the following code
2. <span style="font-family: symbol; size: 10pt;">P</span>
3. view the page

Actual Results:  Normal P appears

Expected Results:  it should have shown the  PI-symbol instead as Internet 
Explorer does

<span style="font-family: symbol; size: 10pt;">P</span>
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Try using &pi; instead.  That's the standard way of doing it... symbol font will
not only not work in some browsers (as you noticed) but will break horribly on
any non-Windows system (as well on any Windows system without a "Symbol" font).

Duplicate of (invalid) bug '<font face="symbol"> not working on Windows'

See also http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/symbol.html for details on the matter

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33127 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
QA Contact: lchiang → stummala
marking verified dupe
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: DOM: Views and Formatting → DOM: CSS Object Model
QA Contact: stummala → general
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