407284 - Some font glyphs are not shown. Some glyphs are not chosen from the specified font

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[crf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007120604 Minefield/3.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007120604 Minefield/3.0b2pre

In firefox 3 beta, some characters on the site http://www.stixfonts.org/allGlyphs.html are not displayed, while they are correctly displayed in firefox 2.

Also, in both firefox 2 and 3, certain glyphs are chosen from some font other than the one specified by the site's use of the font-family css property.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Acquire the Stix fonts beta.
2.Go the url in both firefox 2 and 3 to compare.
3.

Actual Results:  
in firefox 2, most characters are correctly displayed, but both firefox 2 and 3 seem to mis-chose some glyphs. In firefox 3, many characters are not displayed at all. 

Expected Results:  
both firefox 2 and firefox 3 to properly display all characters.

Comment 1

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Attachment: firefox 2 screenshot. Most characters properly displayed.

Comment 2

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Attachment: firefox 3 screenshot. Many characters are not shown.

Comment 3

[crf]

Attachment: Shows how firefox is not drawing some chars, and selecting glyphs from the wrong fonts sometimes

Comment 4

[crf]

Attachment: a smaller testcase. You probably need the stix fonts beta installed

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Does this still happen in firefox 3.6.6 or later in a fresh profile?

Comment 6

[crf]

Yes it still happens.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100708 Minefield/4.0b2pre