422045 - webdings styled text not rendering with webdings font

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 192890

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Trautmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4

Webdings is no longer rendering correctly. Please see URL for test case and compare with earlier versions of Firefox, Camino, Safari etc.

The following html should render a webdings bullet but instead renders a "n":
<span style="font-family: webdings;">&#110;</span>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fire up Firefox 3.0b4
2. Go to the following URL: http://timtrautmann.com/?page_id=24
3. Look for "Testing Webdings" header and below is the rendering problem. Or build a page with the following snippet: <span style="font-family: webdings;">&#110;</span>
Actual Results:  
Renders a "n" in a default font.

Expected Results:  
Should render entity #110 using Webdings font (this font is broadly installed)

Comment 2

[Tim Trautmann]

Have you actually attempted to verify this bug? Please verify before resolving as duplicate to a 5 year old bug. Thank you.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Um, verify what? Five years ago, the owner of the style system said that the behavior you want is incorrect (for that matter, I could have duped to bug 90643, in which case I'd be saying that seven years ago, the owner of the style system said...). There have been times when there have been bugs in the gfx layer (bug 346097, bug 315199, various others I didn't bother to look for) so that CSS wasn't interpreted the way the owner of the style system says it should be, but those are bugs; it's currently displayed the way you expect on the trunk on Windows only, and that's also a bug, bug 399636. I'm sorry that platform-specific bugs in older versions of Gecko, and bad decisions or bugs in other browser, made you think that the letter n (whether or not you use an entity, character 110 is an n) should look like something other than an n based on CSS, but it should not have ever worked.

Comment 4

[Tim Trautmann]

Thanks for taking the time to explain this situation. The name of the font and its rather wide distribution lead me to make assumptions that are obviously wrong. I will attempt to convert the symbols that I am using into gif- or png-files or whatever.