129896 - Fails to print most HTML character entities

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 123408

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P1)

Description

[Steve White]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020207
BuildID:    1001010712

Although Mozilla displays most HTML character entities brilliantly (better than
any other browser, period!), it fails entirely to print them on my Linux system.

This is Linux Mandrake 8.1 with the 2.4.8-34.1 kernel, using the CUPS printing
system.  My printer is a Canon BJC-250.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to above URL (or any page containing, α, ← or ⟨)
2.Print it.
3.

Actual Results:  Some entities print. Specifically, I think, those from the
iso8859-15 character encoding, but a few others, too.

Of the Greek letters, only Delta and mu print.

Most of the others specified by HTML 4 don't print.

Expected Results:  Well, all of the printable (non-whitespace) characters should
have printed, shouldn't they?


I haven't tried this on Windows or the Mac.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

With linux build 2002-03-08-07 I see the following:

1)  Everything in ISO-8859-1 prints
2)  Pretty much nothing in the "Character entity references for symbols,
    mathematical symbols, and Greek letters" section prints (exceptions:
    capital delta, lowercase mu, bullet, slash, "TM", partial, sum, minus, root,
    ne, le, ge.

I know I have fonts for displaying those characters on my system -- Mozilla is
showing them fine on screen and in MathML, TeX renders them fine, dvips has no
trouble creating PostScript with them.  Some of these fonts are even PostScript
fonts...

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

Looks that this is a PostScript-module-only issue... I can print the whole page
incl. all characters with the Xprint module...

Comment 3

[rods (gone)]

This is a dup....

Comment 4

[Jim Crumley]

Looks like a dupe of bug 123408.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123408 ***

Comment 5

[sujay]

verified.