422925 - Symbols instead of characters will be displayed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 396315

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andras Hatvani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

The page residing at the above URL is unreadable, because special symbols will be displayed instead of characters.
E.g.: $§¶¥


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the URL


Actual Results:  
Symbols like $§¶¥ will be displayed instead of characters according to the character encoding.

Expected Results:  
Page will normally be displayed with readable content.

The source of the web page contains correct data.
Copying a selection of text from the web page and pasting it into another application results in correct text.
The web page is correctly displayed in Firefox 2.0.0.12.
Character encoding in both cases: ISO-8859-1.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

wfm with ff3b4 and SM trunk

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Can you attach a PNG screenshot to help identify the bug?

Comment 3

[Andras Hatvani]

Attachment: Screenshot of the bug

Attached the screenshot attached as PNG.

Comment 4

[Andras Hatvani]

Attachment: The same issue is observable on http://www.flex.at

The same issue is observable on http://www.flex.at

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Looks like bug 396315, a bug that affected users with Type 1 fonts installed.  The patch for bug 396315 was checked in after Beta 4 was released.  Please try a nightly and mark this bug as a dup of bug 396315 if it is fixed for you.

Comment 6

[Andras Hatvani]

Verified fixed with 3.0b5pre 2008-03-17.

Comment 7

[Jesse Ruderman]

Yay!