406926 - mac display of some unicode characters broken

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 212745

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Eli the Bearded]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

On the example page there is a unicode heart symbol ( ♥ ). It doesn't display on that page on this Mac in Firefox. Instead I see a vertical line, a bit like a bold |. It does work on this Mac in Safari. It does work in Firefox on other platforms I've tried. I asked in a private Usenet group and got about half of the people there saying it did work on their Mac, and half saying it didn't. The heart displays in the window title, tab title, and in view source on this Mac, but not in the page. It doesn't display in text entry fields for a Wordpress blog, but is displaying in the text entry field for this bug.

Since the page works on other systems, I'm guessing this is OS integration? This might be a dupe of 399636, but I'm not sure I can properly ascertain that. I don't see FONT tags in the page, but maybe that bug applies to CSS fonts, too? On the other hand, why would the pages work on Windows and Linux if it were that on

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399636


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View page on this computer (or other affected computers)

Actual Results:  
Character incorrectly rendered in page.

Expected Results:  
Character correctly rendered.

OS X 10.4.11 (on a MacBook Pro). Not my computer, so I don't know what patches or updates have or have not been applied.

Comment 1

[philippe (part-time)]

Fixed for Firefox 3 beta1.