295851 - Card-suit characters not rendered correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212745

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050528 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050528 Camino/0.8+

The four card suits, symbolized by Unicode characters 0x2660, 0x2663, 0x2665 and
0x2666 and the HTML entities ♠, ♣, ♥ and ♦,
respectively, do not render as they should.  Rather, they render as a dark
horizontal line, a light vertical line, a dark vertical line, and a light
horizontal line.  See the example URL, which contains an assortment of Unicode
character entities defined in the HTML 4 spec.

These same four characters render properly in Safari and Internet Explorer.

This does not appear to be a font-matching issue.  Even when a font such as
Hiragino Kaku Gothic which contains the card suit glyphs is selected, the
characters do not render properly.  See the attached HTML for an example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any page containing an HTML entity or Unicode character for a card suit.

Actual Results:  
A vertical or horizontal line is displayed.


Expected Results:  
The proper card suit sign is displayed..

Comment 1

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

Attachment: Sample HTML containing the heart character expressed by several different means, in both the default font and Hiragino.

Comment 2

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

For what it's worth, this bug also manifests in Firefox and the Mozilla suite
for Mac. Should I submit separate bugs for those?

Comment 3

[L. H.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212745 ***