171961 - (Unicode_Greek_Suppt) POLYTONIC unicode Greek web pages replace polytonic accents with "?"

Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Theodore Nicolakis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910

When I load web pages with *POLYTONIC* unicode Greek (a.k.a. Ancient Greek) certain 
accent and letter combinations show up  as "?" and with others, the accents are not 
spaced placed properly over the letter they are accenting.  This problem is demonstrated 
and documented at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/unicodeMac.html#applications

Additionally, it is commented about as a specific Mozilla problem at: 
http://www.stoa.org/unicode/quickstart.html

"Netscape and the Mozilla open source community are currently working on adding 
Unicode support to the Mozilla and Netscape 6.x browsers for Macintosh OS X. In OS X, 
Mozilla has flawed Unicode support (for instance, the pi is rendered wrongly in many 
fonts)."

Netscape and the Mozilla open source community are currently working on adding 
Unicode support to the Mozilla and Netscape 6.x browsers for Macintosh OS X. In OS X, 
Mozilla has flawed Unicode support (for instance, the pi is rendered wrongly in many 
fonts).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load any Unicode Greek Web page with ancient Greek (polytonic Greek)
2
3.

Actual Results:  
Polytonic Greek characters appear as "?" and some accents do not appear properly over 
the characters.

Expected Results:  
Shown all characters in the Polytonic Greek Unicode character set.  Formatted the Greek 
text appropriately.

I am using OSX version 10.1.5.

Comment 1

[Yuying Long]

It seems display fine with me this page on Mac 10.1.5:
http://www.stoa.org/sol-bin/search.pl?db=REAL&search_method=QUERY&login=guest&enlogin=guest&user_list=LIST&page_num=1&searchstr=priest&field=any&num_per_page=100

Build ID: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020930

Reporter:
Can you attach a screen shot to show the problem? thanks!

Comment 2

[Niklas Dougherty]

Apart from Mozilla being a CFM antiquity with  h o r r i b l e,  absolutely
non-Mac OS X rendering of everything but plain old American SCII, do you have
the proper fonts installed? For full support of Greek Extended (with polytonos)
only Code 2000, Arial Unicode MS, and Cardo will do. Authors of Greek pages
should specify these fonts in a class in the style sheet to set a preference for
good fonts.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using Chimera/2002100104 on 10.1.5, probably because I have a font
installed that actually contains the characters, as Niklas describes in comment 2.

Theodore, if you can't type it in another application, Mozilla won't display it.
Mozilla doesn't contain it's own fonts, it just uses what you have installed.

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: Screen shot from reporter

This screen shot was sent by reporter, thanks Theo!

It's definitely not reproduce for me on lastest trunk build.

Yes, I think it's because reporter doesn't has the right font in his machine,
and we should resolve this as works for me.

Comment 5

[Yuying Long]

Here is mail from reporter:

Downloaded the fonts as recommended and BINGO!!!
Can't thank you all enough.  It was driving me crazy.

Kind regards,
Theo

So, mark it as works for me now.

Comment 6

[Yuying Long]

Mark as verified.

Comment 7

[Theodore Nicolakis]

Adding fonts to OS X /library/fonts did the trick to solve this