49594 - M18 fails to display Greek letters from Symbol font.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33127

(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)

Description

[dales]

Mozilla M18 (as well as many previous versions and Netscape 6PR2) fail to display 
Greek letters specified on a web page (URL = <http://praiseofglory.com/torre.htm>
) using the Symbol font.  The letters that should be Greek from the Symbol font 
display as the Roman letters used to identify the Symbol font characters.

The Greek words display properly in Netscape 4.73,.74,.75, in IE 5.0, and iCab 
2.0 and 2.1.

A quick visit to the page given above will illustrate the problem.  No special 
action needed.

Comment 1

[Stephen Koren]

Confirmed on 081608 Win98 - may be related to bug 7951. Over to
Internationalization.

Comment 2

[dales]

One thing I omitted from the first report ... this is a cross-platform bug.  I 

see the same thing on WinNT 4.0 WS with SP5 installed.  I do not know if it 

occurs on UNIX/Linux/etc.



The other bug (# 7951) is related to accented characters and characters with 

diacritical marks.  The characters on the page I referenced are just the basic 

characters - since they are from the Symbol font - and they still do not display.

Comment 3

[Sean Richardson]

Hmm, from bug 33127, "<font face="symbol"> not working on Windows", it looks
like by design the regular letters should be displayed, despite a font being
specified that has different glyphs at those code points. The conclusion is
that fonts that put characters at the wrong code points rely on a hack that
is incompatible with HTML 4.0 and will not be supported -- see bug 31538.

Greek letters can easily be specified using HTML 4.0 character entities and 
numeric character entities: 
see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=2604

But see also the <RANT> about backwards compatibility in bug 22031, under 
> ------- Additional Comments From Mark Carson 2000-03-25 04:07 -------
For more details about problems displaying Unicode characters in NN 4.x, see 
http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/netscape.html

And for both sides of the argument well expressed, see bug 31538,
"Mozilla can't display the Webdings font even it is installed on the client",
marked INVALID. 

Having said all that, this bug is a DUP of bug 33127.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33127 ***

Comment 4

[Teruko Kobayashi]

Verified as dup.