256017 - font-family style broken for Webdings, Wingdings and similar fonts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33127

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

Description

[Daniel Beckham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8

The Win32 build of FireFox 0.9.3 does not render text correctly when the
following style has been applied: "font-family: Webdings;".  The Mac OS build
for the same version of FireFox renders the style correctly.  

Using the following snippit of HTML, you can see the problem:

---HTML SNIPPIT---
Win32 FireFox BAD
<div style="font-family: Webdings;">45678</div>

Win32 FireFox GOOD
<font face="Webdings">45678</font>
---HTML SNIPPIT---

FireFox incorrectly displays the numbers 4 through 8 inside the DIV tag, but 
will correctly display the Webding glyphs inside the FONT tag.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the html snippit given to a simple html page.
2. Load the html page in FireFox.
3. Witness the incorrect behavior.

Actual Results:  
You see incorrectly rendered text inside the DIV tag, but correctly rendered
text inside the FONT tag. 

Expected Results:  
FireFox should have correctly rendered the Webdings glyphs inside the DIV tag
with the "font-family" style applied. 


Please note that the HTML snippit is rendered correctly on the Mac OS platform
using the same version of FireFox.  I have not been able to verify whether or
not the snippit is rendered correctly in Linux/Unix.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33127 ***

Comment 2

[jon rekai]

Bug 193404 sounds closer?  (Reporter, see also its comment 4 for some info on
properly accessing the elements of symbol fonts.)