3587 - Hex characters are rendering as other characters or boxes

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect, P3)

Description

[Jan Carpenter]

3-9-99 build
Mac
(Windows has same bug, writing up separately and assigning to erik: bug#3586)

- Go to the URL: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/  and select
any of the 3 links at the bottom of the page to see "Latin-1 Entities", "Symbols
and Greek Letters", or "Other Special Characters"

Notable characters missing entirely are these:

Π         Π
†     †
∠        &#x2220

Many others show incorrectly, for example Latin capital ligature OE renders as
an "R", the Greek capital letter for omega renders a copyright symbol, etc.
Still others are rendered as boxes.

Comment 1

[Frank Tang]

Please verify again. I check in ATSUI work 3/12 .

You can also try the http://warp/u/ftang/publish/test/ent.html
There are a parser bug related to this about Ξ and ξ I have already
proposed the change to rickg and wait for his approve to check in.
There are still some characters cannot be renderred, but please file seperate
bugs for them (at least divided by the three pages there) because they may have
different priorities to be fixed. (For example, since we do not support Hebrew
render ℵ will be in very low priority,  and ‌ ‍ ‎ ‏ are
bidirectional control character which SHOULD NOT be render as seperate glyph.)

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Fixed in March 23rd Build.