135687 - [FreeType2] Handle symbol tt fonts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Internationalization, enhancement)

Description

[tenthumbs]

It would be nice if mozilla could handle a symbol tt font so it wouldn't have to
depend on the bitmap ones. Perhaps a pref that says "this font is the symbol
font."

Comment 1

[kill this account]

This is a great suggestion. The basic pieces are in place.

Right now I have limited time which is already committed to adding TrueType
printing and maintaining the current code.

Comment 2

[Frank Tang]

katakai- can you take this one?

Comment 3

[Masaki Katakai]

Sure. I'll work on this after *golden* week.

Comment 4

[Masaki Katakai]

Does 

http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/symbol.html

good example?

Comment 5

[Masaki Katakai]

But I'm not sure why Mozilla doesn't render those glyphs on
both Windows and Solaris. IE does. Can anyone know?? bug??

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

Filed bug 145052 for that.

Comment 7

[kill this account]

Yes, I suspect that http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/demos/symbol.html would be a
good test case.

I do not know about windows but I would not expect it to display properly on
Linux/Unix with a TrueType symbol font since the char value will be converted to
a glyph using the TrueType Unicode cmap not the symbol cmap.

Comment 8

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Comment 9

[Greg Tatum [:gregtatum]]

I doubt this bug is still valid, closing as invalid.