436788 - Incorrectly displayed character with Courier, MS Sans Serif fonts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P1)

Description

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Go the web page from URL field and click "Where are we" link. The name of the street have to be 'Štupartská' but on my system there is instead of 'Š' displayed a mismatched character. The page meta tag says the page is UTF-8 encoded and as seen from the source code the text is really encoded correctly. View/Character encoding is set to UTF-8. I played with setting of fonts, no success to make this work.

System: Windows XPSP2 en
Firefox: 3.0rc1 en

IE6 en (default on the machine) has no trouble to display the text correctly. This works as expected on Mac with cz version of FF3rc1 and on cz windows xp with cz FF3rc1.

Comment 1

[Surya Ismail]

As a workaround, you can set the character set as ISO-8859-1.

Comment 2

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> As a workaround, you can set the character set as ISO-8859-1.
> 

This doesn't help, at least not on the page I refer.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Regression range is http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=PhoenixTinderbox&date=explicit&mindate=1206563820&maxdate=1206570719
Caused by bug 425249 or bug 424018 ?

Comment 4

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sick)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Regression range is
> http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=PhoenixTinderbox&date=explicit&mindate=1206563820&maxdate=1206570719
> Caused by bug 425249 or bug 424018 ?

bug 425249 should not be the cause.

Comment 5

[Atsushi Sakai]

Attachment: testcase

(In reply to comment #1)
> As a workaround, you can set the character set as ISO-8859-1.

UTF-8 is mentioned in the summary, but it does not seem to matter.

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Worksforme on Mac, broken on XP. Is this a font issue?

Comment 7

[Honza Bambas (:mayhemer)]

Is there any workaround for web developers?

Comment 8

[Atsushi Sakai]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Is there any workaround for web developers?

Use "Courier New" instead of "Courier."

Comment 9

[Marius Strumyla]

I too experience this issue. My page uses "MS Sans Serif" font and it can not longer display these html entities – •

Comment 12

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

The Testcase is WFM regarding the Rendering of the "Š" Character properly against Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.1 ID:20120208060813 without and with HWA (GDI vs. D2D).

It fails against Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.26) Gecko/20120128 Firefox/3.6.26 ID:20120128224517.

Same applies for the Example in Bug 545363.

Can somebody verify?

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM also