493939 - title="" does not show special characters.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[d]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Having a special font, with special symbols used at a homepage, which should appear when you hover a link or image does not work. They just appear as boxes. The font in this case was http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com - Fixed Sys Excelsior.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the Fixed Sys Excelsior font.
2. Create a title="" with the font in.
3. See if the special characters appear as squares.
Actual Results:  
They appear as squares in the title="".

Expected Results:  
They should appear like they do on the homepage itself.

Comment 1

[Lapo Luchini]

But the HTML text can be stylized to use that specific font-family, while the title attribute contains pure text, and as such it can't be stylized at all.

Comment 3

[d]

But, the title="" isn't the same as <title>, and could the title="" then be modified to include more than just pure text?

Comment 5

[d]

This isn't a duplicate of bug 500929.

Comment 6

[d]

Closing this as INVALID as I now use a Mac (where this issue isn't seen), and don't want to "maintain" this.

(I also was pretty much a Bugzilla-noob when I filed this, and thus is something that's lacking information etc etc.)