291691 - Horizontal ellipsis is not rendered correctly for non-CJK scripts

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: GFX: Mac, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Shanks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; gd) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050416

As demonstrated at http://web.nickshanks.com/mozilla/ellipsis the rendering of the low baseline 
horizontal ellipsis character U+2026, and the universal horizontal ellipsis entity … when used 
with Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and most other scripts is incorrect. For all languages, even when 
specifying the character with the correct unicode codepoint (inline or via NCR), the character U+22EF is 
instead used. I have provided a reference rendering demonstrating how it should look.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Include the character … (U+2026 Low baseline horizontal ellipsis) in a web page via any means.
2. Render the page using Gecko
3. Observe how the glyph for character ⋯ (U+22EF Centre baseline horizontal ellipsis) is substituted 
instead.
4. Note that copying text containing U+2026 and pasting in another application with produce the 
correct character, so it just seems to be a rendering error.
Actual Results:  
See webpage for screenshot. (And I won't mention how **** Mozilla is at rendering Latin fonts and lack 
of support for Devanagari)

Expected Results:  
Rendered the correct glyph.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The URL in the URL field doesn't load...

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

It works now.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK, this worksforme on Linux too.  Sounds like a Mac-only issue.

Comment 4

[Brandon Mitchell]

I don't follow what this bug is about, but for anyone who is interested the URL changed to http://web.nickshanks.com/browsers/mozilla/ellipsis

Comment 5

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]