236854 - Wingdings font cannot be specified using CSS

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Veniamin Zolotukhin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This HTML code should produce equal results:
<div><font face="Wingdings">nox</font></div>
<div style="font-family:Wingdings">nox</div>
but it doesnt!
Other fonts works fine

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. create HTML
2. specify font Wingdings for some text via CSS (either style or class)
3. Open in Firefox

Actual Results:  
text appears in different font when CSS used, but Wingdings can be specified 
with <font>

Expected Results:  
<div><font face="Wingdings">nox</font></div>
<div style="font-family:Wingdings">nox</div>

Should looks exactly the same!

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron:]

It's not supposed to work that way.  If you put an "a" in the document, Mozilla
is supposed to display an "a", and Wingdings doesn't have an "a".

However, see http://unicode.org/charts/ and especially
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf and
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf , which can be used via numeric
character references (NCRs) (e.g., ☺) if you're using a character
encoding that doesn't allow them to be transmitted directly.

Comment 2

[Veniamin Zolotukhin]

Wingdings have "a"! It just looksa different.

This not working anyway:
<div><font face="Wingdings">nox&#110;&#111;</font></div>
<div style="font-family:Wingdings">nox&#110;&#111;</div>

Its not about character encoding, but font is not assigned with CSS

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron:]

Nope, the information in the font says that it's not really an "a".

Comment 4

[Veniamin Zolotukhin]

OK. I dont want "a", i want a !

<div style="font-family:Wingdings">&#97;</div>

still don't work!
CSS property font-family should be able to assign ANY font to any text object!

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron:]

Please stop reopening the bug.

a is always an "a".  You want the correct unicode codepoint.

Comment 6

[Veniamin Zolotukhin]

This MUST be rendered equal:
<div><font face="Wingdings">a</font></div>
<div style="font-family:Wingdings">a</div>

THIS IS WHY MOZILLA WILL ALLWAYS SUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK!!
Because of stupid or lazy testers and developers.

The problem exist. but you are an idiot!

Comment 7

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

What an unpleasant and ignorant creature  I was going to disable its bugzilla
account, but it looks like someone beat me to it.

/be