192890 - CSS font-family doesn't render text as expected with Webdings font

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[nautilebleu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When using the CSS font-family attribute to display icon with webdings font, the
text is render as sans-serif. Problem doesn't occurs when using font face tag.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See the test case
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Actual Results:  
Text is render as sans -serif

Expected Results:  
Text should render with the correct font

seem to be near from the bug #47752

Comment 1

[nautilebleu]

Attachment: Testcase of the problem

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

*** Bug 192889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This bug is invalid.  Our behavior with CSS is correct, and our behavior with
HTML is incorrect, but we do it for backwards-compatibility even though it hurts
internationalization.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

When you specify an "A" character, that says to find a font that has an "A" and
use the "A" rather than just using the 65th character in the font.  This is
necessary when using text in multiple languages since a Japanese font may not
have European characters, and a European font may not have Japanese characters.
 The way that Symbol/Webdings fonts have been used in the past contradicts this.
 We are not supporting the incorrect behavior when it is used in CSS
'font-family' (we only supported it in some cases, and on some platforms), since
CSS 'font-family' is not widely used on the web in that way.  We only support it
for the HTML FONT element on pages in Quirks mode.

Comment 5

[nautilebleu]

So what the difference with bug #47752 and the fantasy font ?

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This has nothing to do with bug 47752.

Comment 7

[nautilebleu]

The first testcase of the bug bug #47752 shows the using of the generic font
family and there's a "fantasy" family which display non alphabetical characters.
It was in that way I talk about it. Why can we use fantasy font in this case and
not in mine ?

Comment 8

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

'fantasy' has nothing to do with non-alphabetic characters.

Comment 9

[nautilebleu]

Using a fantasy font family display an "icon" and not an alphabetical character

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 361625 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***