202604 - Roman numerals 5000, 10,000, etc. not rendered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 210128

(Core :: Layout, defect, P4)

Description

[Kim Scarborough]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030328
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030328

Mozilla doesn't know about roman numerals above 1000, so it substitutes a ? for
5000 & 10,000 when rendering OL lists. In practice, this means that OL lists
that go to 4000 can't be displayed in roman numerals.

Generally, 5000 is written as a V with a line over it, and 10,000 as an X with a
line over it, etc. Unicode uses less-commonly used unique charcters for both
(see <http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2150.pdf>. I don't think it matters
which method Mozilla uses; either would be better than giving up.

Also see the discussion in bug 98488.

I'm currently on 1.3 beta on FreeBSD, but I also see this behavior in 1.3 final
for Windows.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Kim Scarborough]

Attachment: Demonstration HTML

Comment 2

[Jesiah S]

I see it also on LInux 2003041808

Comment 3

[Michael Stadlbauer]

I see it also on W2K but I tried it with IE6.0 and Opera6.0 and non of them can
display it correctly.

Comment 4

[Josh Birnbaum]

Confirming.  The code for this starts at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/html/base/src/nsBulletFrame.cpp#482

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

update: URL file not found, replaced with testcase
was: http://www.unknown.nu/temp/romantest2.html


static PRBool RomanToText(PRInt32 ordinal, nsString& result, const char* achars,
const char* bchars) now found at:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/generic/nsBulletFrame.cpp#469

Comment 7

[Kim Scarborough]

How could this be a duplicate of an issue that was fixed in 2003 if the bug is still present as of build 20090729225027? Re-opening.

Comment 8

[Kim Scarborough]

Apologies, I had this confused with something else.