416812 - Angular parentheses (〈 and 〉) are not rendered correctly on Mac.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[SamyDagan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021004 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021004 Minefield/3.0b4pre

This is a bug in Mac. In windows they are rendered fine.
See the attached file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Include angular parentheses (〈 and 〉) in a mathml expression.
2.Open it by Minefield on Mac: their codes appear instead of the parentheses.
3.Open it by Minefield on Windows: the parentheses are rendered.
Actual Results:  
See the steps above.

Expected Results:  
To get the parentheses rendered and not their codes.

Comment 1

[SamyDagan]

Attachment: xhtml file with a mathml expression including angular parentheses.

Comment 2

[philippe (part-time)]

That testcase works fine for me on OS X 10.5. I do have the 'cambria' font installed.

What OS X version are you using ?

Comment 3

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

The hex box means that you have no font which contains glyphs for this character, so this is a simple lack of fonts, not a bug.  My guess is that you have Arial Unicode MS on your Windows system, that font contains glyphs for these codepoints.

You probably don't want to be using these codepoints anyways, the Unicode 5.0 character tables list this note for U+2329 and U+232A - "these are discouraged for mathematical use because of their canonical equivalence to CJK punctuation".  A better choice would probably be U+27E8 and U+27E9, these appear to be supported in a wider variety of fonts, although none of the default 10.4 fonts contain glyphs for these codepoints either.  Try using the DejaVu fonts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts

Hopefully Stixfonts will solve more of your problem:

http://www.stixfonts.org

Comment 4

[SamyDagan]

Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
StixFonts indeed solved the problem.
Thanks again, Samy

Comment 5

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
> StixFonts indeed solved the problem.
> Thanks again, Samy

thanks for taking the time to file a bug on something you thought was wrong!