307202 - α displayed as "a" when using verdana font

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050905
Firefox/1.0+

The page contains the following HTML:
  usability α (1/features)

But Firefox on Windows displays:
  usability a (1/features).

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Also happens in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10)
Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

This worksforme on trunk and branch. Can you attach a screenshot?

Comment 4

[u63580]

The Verdana alpha looks a lot like an a to me - is this the problem?

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

It looks like the a in some other fonts, but not like the a in Verdana itself,
e.g. in "usability" and "features" in the testcase.

Comment 6

[u63580]

(In reply to comment #5)
> It looks like the a in some other fonts, but not like the a in Verdana itself,
> e.g. in "usability" and "features" in the testcase.

Yes, I see.  However, the bug seems to be WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050903 Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050905
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005090507

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Attachment: Verdana character map showing alpha character rendering

Heh, fwiw, I blinked a couple of times myself when I wrote the entry, but
that's just Verdana's crappy alpha :)