346097 - Cocoa widget builds incorrectly display <font face="Symbol">a</font> as Greek

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I ran across this yesterday in Camino on the 18branch and just verified it also exists in Josh's new UniCocoafox.

When Roman characters are enclosed within <font face="Symbol"> tags, the characters are supposed to be Roman, not Greek; an "a" is an "a", no matter what the font.

Carbonfox, Safari, and probably all other Mac browsers excluding IE get this right.

Testcase to follow.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: Testcase for busted <font face="Symbol"> behavior

Comment 2

[Justin Kerk]

Note that this isn't working properly in Cairo platforms either (I don't know that there's a bug for it though).

Comment 3

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

We need to figure out what changed at the very least -- and then decide whether we want to leave it as-is or special case it or what.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I just tried this in Camino 0.8.4 (Gecko 1.7.8), and it worked OK.  

I won't have time for a while to run through old Caminos between the 1.7 branch point and (presumably) the 1.8 branch point and see when this regressed in Cocoa widgets....

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Actually, this broke (both on trunk and 1.8 branch) sometime after 1.8 branched, since the first Camino build from the 1.8 branch displays the testcase properly

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050816 Camino/0.9a2+

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This works in 16 Nov 2005 trunk.

It broke in 17 Nov 2005 trunk.

I suspect the checkin for bug 213702 revealed the bug, but I sort of doubt that checkin is responsible for the bug itself.

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Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I suspect the checkin for bug 213702 revealed the bug, but I sort of doubt that
> checkin is responsible for the bug itself.

This bug is mentioned in a few places in that bug.  It seems like bug 213702 comment 11 might have a handle on why it's happening, although I'm not sure why it's only Cocoa builds that are broken....

Comment 8

[Josh Aas]

This is fixed on trunk. Still broken on FF2 though.