Closed
Bug 49594
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
M18 fails to display Greek letters from Symbol font.
Categories
(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)
Core
Internationalization
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(Reporter: dales, Assigned: nhottanscp)
Details
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•24 years ago
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Confirmed on 081608 Win98 - may be related to bug 7951. Over to Internationalization.
Assignee: asa → nhotta
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Internationalization
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Mac System 9.0 → All
QA Contact: doronr → teruko
Hardware: Macintosh → All
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•24 years ago
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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 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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