476084 - Can't or won't display Webdings or WingDings fonts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 193404

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2

Specify the Webdings or WingDings font using CSS font-family.  It falls back to the default browser font, even though I have those fonts installed.

I tried to pick them as my default browser font (bad idea all around anyway) and neither is even in the list of recognized fonts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.style="font-family:Webdings, monospace" on any element or in style block or style sheet
2.display page in browser
3.
Actual Results:  
Get the fallback font.

Expected Results:  
Display Webdings font characters.

It could be that these Microsoft specific fonts are lacking the embedded info to be recognized correctly.  Or they could be just ****.  Same difference.

I came across this as I was testing @font-face in 3.1b2.  These are fonts that not everyone has and would be kinda cool to use some times, instead of images.

Comment 1

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

See here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193404#c4