Closed
Bug 24924
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 25 years ago
"Simple" forms of missing CP1252 chars aren't displayed
Categories
(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)
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M16
People
(Reporter: lennox, Assigned: erik)
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Details
In Communicator 4.7 on Unix, since the system-installed ISO Latin-1 fonts are really Latin-1 and not CP1252, no curly quote characters are available in the fonts, and so entities like “ are displayed using a US-ASCII subset representation of them (curly quotes as ", for instance). Mozilla (M12 and a current snapshot) doesn't do this, but instead just leaves the characters blank. While this is arguably correct, it's certainly not as useful, since there're a lot of pages out there which use those entities. Apparently GoLive includes them automatically. Compare the display of the above-referenced URL in 4.7 and in M12. Also consider <http://www.awenet.com/~wrd/journal/2000/01/18.shtml>, which is where I first noticed the problem (the quotes in the dialog are missing under Mozilla). I've tested this both with M12 running native on FreeBSD, and with a current Linux nightly build displaying remotely to the same FreeBSD box.
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Comment 4•25 years ago
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I ran into waqar in the hall way and he mentioned this bug. The problem as described by the original reporter is true on M13 Linux build with ISO-8859-1 font installed. I think i18n would need a general polciy on how to deal with this tyepe of case -- either 1) special case handling for some of the important NERs that are being used a lot in today's web sites, or 2) some other general policy like showing &147;. I think a sizable number of sites use tools like HTML convert utility to convert Word docs into HTML documents. Then we end up having these kind of entities. CC'ing erik and ftang.
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Comment 5•25 years ago
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Also bobj.
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Comment 7•25 years ago
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Seems related to: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6585 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16872 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12662 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15731 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17962
Reassigning to erik per Frank Tang.
Assignee: waqar → erik
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
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Updated•25 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M16
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Updated•25 years ago
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Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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