273901 - unicode combining diacritical marks over succeeding instead of preceding char

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197649

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jón Fairbairn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10.1

The unicode combining forms in the html at the indicated url are all displayed
over the character after them, whereas the unicode documentation on
www.unicode.org indicates that they should be combined with the previous character.

See the examples at <URL: http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html >

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. point firefox at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jf/accented-cyrillic.html
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
accents over nothing, accents over consonants

Expected Results:  
ó (o&#x0301;) should display as ó

accent over final о of Кольцо, second а of какая, э of это and у of буква

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It's difficult to say exactly what's what among combining bugs, since it's
apparently OS-dependent, sometimes OS-version-dependent, and also
script-dependent. I think, though, this is a duplicate of bug 197649 (Linux,
mention of Cyrillic).

And by-the-by, on WinXP Firefox displays your testcase correctly.

Comment 2

[Jón Fairbairn]

I think you're right. I can't understand why my search for "unicode" failed to
find that one.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197649 ***