226121 - Mathematical Symbols are Wrongly Displayed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 208213

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Carlos Sevcik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Some time ago I submitted a paper with lots of equations to an Internet hosted
Journal called Complexity International. The manuscript was submitter in HTML
format generated with MS Office. The symbols in text include greek letters etc.
which may be seen properly with IE Explorer but not with Mozilla or FireBird. I
hagot complains from readers, thus I tried rewriting the paper with OpenOffice
thinking that MS Word was the problem, but the HTML code generated with OO looks
good agains with IE but bad with Mozilla or Firebird

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just go to my paper in
http://journal-ci.csse.monash.edu.au/ci/vol05/sevcik/sevcik.html
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Greek letter phy, for example is phy in IE and F in text, in "N(e)=L/(2×e)
segments of length 2×e, and may be covered by  N(e)" the e letters are lowercase
epsilons in IE and e's in Mozilla or Firebird and so on. The equations are OK
because they are gif images, all the problems are in the text.

Expected Results:  
see above

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

If it doesn't work in Mozilla, then please don't file it as a Firebird bug.
->Browser/Layout

Comment 2

[Charles Fenwick]

In Mozilla 1.5 and Firebird 0.7, I see the problems cited.  However, the page
looks to be correct in the current Mozilla (20031118) and Firebird (20031116)
nightlies.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> <font FACE="Symbol">F)</font>

The "Symbol" font doesn't have a 'F' glyph, so it wasn't used to render that 'F'.

I believe we hacked something in in 1.6a/b to make this work, though....  In
general, though, relying on such hacks in the browsers is likely to stop working
sometime in the next few years....

Comment 4

[rbs]

Windows is now OK. It remains Linux & the Mac.

The current plan is to let <font face> access glyphs by indices as IE does. In
some cases, e.g., intranets, people may really need glyphs in special fonts
(e.g., a digital signature/logo -- see, e.g., the last glyphs at:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/encoding/math5.gif).
HTML/Unicode will never assign Unicode points for such "glyphs"... So the change
of heart is to left <font face> wander in its quirky way as a stop-gap measure
for such situations.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 208213 ***