117881 - Apostrophes rendered as "question mark inside black diamond" character"

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Michael Spertus]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    2001101117

Renders correctly in IE. I tried to determine if it was a problem with the page
or mozilla by having mozilla show the page source. Even in the page source, the
apostrophes are displayed as white question marks inside black diamonds. In any
case, whether it is a mozilla problem or a page problem, it still should be
addressed for a polished product (perhaps by contacting the webmaster, which I
would be willing to do once I know what the story is).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.View the URL above
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Actual Results:  The apostrophes display as question marks in black diamonds

Expected Results:  displayed apostrophes

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To intl...  we should probably have fallback for those chars if they are not 
found in any existing fonts...

Comment 2

[Roy Yokoyama]

font issue -> shanjian

Comment 3

[Shanjian Li]

The character in question is 0x92. In win1252 encoding, it is interpreted as 
single right quotation mark. That is not the right use of this character. 
Apostrophe(0x27) should be used in place. In other encoding, 0x92 might be 
interpreted as something else, or just undefined. The page contains no meta 
charset specification. So if you happen to have the right encoding, (ISO-8859-1 
or win1252), everything works fine. Otherwise there will be mentioned problem.
IE5.5 on my box have the same behavior as mozilla. It's all depend on encoding.

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as Invalid.

Comment 5

[Patrick]

*** Bug 201452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Patrick]

*** Bug 208083 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Patrick]

*** Bug 280012 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***