Closed Bug 511150 Opened 15 years ago Closed 14 years ago

The LOGICAL AND unicode symbol [∧ U+2227 ∧] displays correctly in Times New Roman but not in Verdana.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jim, Unassigned)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2011-1-1])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20090818 Minefield/3.7a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20090818 Minefield/3.7a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="UTF8-Charset" content="http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8-t1.html" /> <title>The LOGICAL AND unicode symbol</title> </head> <body> <p> The LOGICAL AND unicode symbol [∧ U+2227 ∧] displays correctly in Times New Roman: <var>a</var> | <var>b</var> <var>&nbsp;</var><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman'">∧</span>&nbsp; <var>a</var> | <var>c</var> But not in Verdana: <var>a</var> | <var>b</var> <var>&nbsp;</var><span style="font-family:Verdana">∧</span>&nbsp; <var>a</var> | <var>c</var> </p> </body> </html> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Display any page containing the logical and symbol in the Verdana font. Note: This is not just about Verdana - display the same page in MSIE and you get the familiar carrot shape.
I tried this on another recent XP machine and on a Vista machine. It replicates on XP but not Vista, suggesting that it may have been introduced by one of the recent XP upgrades.
Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles Also, please consider using the most recent Firefox 4 beta build, your bug may be resolved there.
Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2011-1-1]
No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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