297330 - The Greek symbols do not convert. They appear in the English alphabet. format

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[paul.j.daniels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

On a PC the symbols are the usual ones in Greek.  In Mozilla, on my Linux
workstation,, the same symbols appear in the English language alphabet.  So,
when I should be seeing Ohm-meters, I see W-m, which is Watt-meters (wrong units).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://www.webelements.com/

2.  Click on Fe (iron, the 26th element)

3.  Click on the link that includes "electrical resistivity"

4.  Scroll down until you find it
    -- I see 'W' where I should see the Greek symbol for Omega
    -- What do you see?

Actual Results:  
English appears, rather than Greek.

Expected Results:  
It should have displayed Greek symbols.

I did communicate with the site owner, and he thinks the problem may be some
issue with the revision of the Greek font he's using.  What I want to know is
what you folks at Mozilla Headquarters see when you bring it up and look at it.
 If it looks OK to you, then the issue is a problem with our server, or my
workstation, etc.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

<http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Fe/phys.html> is in
iso-8859-1 charset. I see 	

Electrical resistivity [/10-8 W m; or mW cm]: 9.7 

on the page and in the source <span style="font-family: symbol">W</span>. I
think the use of fonts like this depends on issues he can not control on the
users machine. Perhaps html entities? <http://bclary.com/2004/11/25/html-entities>

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

see bug 33127

Comment 3

[Daniel.S]

This website now uses Unicode and HTML entities.