178616 - Error rendering numeric information in e-commerce sites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 168605

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[Mark Wilson]

http://www.microanvika.co.uk/PCSHOP/product.asp?TXT=INFO&PNO=FOR42150

As an example (I have encountered this issue with many e-commerce sites) the
above link shows how chimera currently mis-displays pricing information. I have
no idea how it happens, but if I switch to IE5.2, the pages render perfectly.

Obviously, this is pretty serious as it stops people being able to use chimera
for online shopping at many sites.

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

fwiw, I don't see anything signifigantly different between
Mozilla/Konqueror/Netscape4 on linux on that page. Reporter, can you explain
exactly what is displayed differently between Chimera vs. IE5.2, when and how?

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Attachment: page in chimera

Attaching screenshots from reporter's e-mail. Reporter, for future reference -
you can add further comments or attach images to a bug report directly, in this
case at <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178616>; attachments using
the "Create a New Attachment" link there.

Comment 3

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Attachment: page in ie

Comment 4

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

Attachment: page in netscape7

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Probably another site with improperly coded English pound symbols.

Comment 6

[Safedin]

using
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021107, build 2002110710
(If you're talking about the british pound symbol not showing up) then it works
for me. 
Displays perfectly.

Comment 7

[Mark Wilson]

The issue is not the British pound symbol - as you can see from the comparitive
screenshots, chimera displays the numeric information after the pound symbol
incorrectly. It seems to be ignoring the first two numbers after the pound
symbol, so '£123.56' becomes '3.56'.

For reference, I just checked it in Mozilla 1.0 on OSX, and that displays
correctly, as IE5.2 and Netscape7 do.

Comment 8

[Mark Wilson]

Attachment: correct render in Netscape 7

Comment 9

[Mark Wilson]

Attachment: INCORRECT render in chimera 0.6

Comment 10

[Mark Wilson]

I've attached two new renders from a British Government website - you can see
both rendering errors relating to the Pound symbol and following numbers, and a
strange character appearing further down the page in chimera render only.

Again, displays properly in all other browsers I have tried on OSX - IE5.2,
Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.0/1.0.1, Omniweb 4.1

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168605 ***