550200 - Thin Space displays incorrectly when styled in italic (Snow Leopard).

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Alex Coles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

Thin Space ( -or- ) displays incorrectly on Snow Leopard (10.6). This problem is not reproducible on Windows (XP) or on Leopard (10.5).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a page, specifying UTF-8 charset.
2. Use either the  -character or   entity.
3. Style the text as italic.
Actual Results:  
The thin space character should display.

Expected Results:  
Another character (looks like a 2009 in a box) displays.

Comment 1

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: test case that demonstrates this issue

Comment 2

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: Screenshot of test case on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) demonstrating correct behavior

Comment 3

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: Screenshot of test case on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) demonstrating INCORRECT behavior

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

I can't reproduce this on my 10.6 system.

What is the version of Georgia you have ? The one installed by Apple is Version 5.00x. (and if you have MS office installed, you may have 2 copies actived)

Does it happen with other fonts ?

Comment 5

[Alex Coles]

@philippe This problem does occur with other fonts. I will attach an test case and screenshots to show this behavior.

I do indeed have an issue with duplicate fonts on my system. I have Microsoft Office 2004 installed on SL. In the case of Georgia, for example, I have two copies of version 2.05 (TrueType), plus version 5.0 installed (OpenType TrueType).

I have tried deactivating the older versions of the fonts in Font Book - but I still reproduce the behavior.

This behavior is not reproducible in other browsers -- I had guessed that perhaps other browsers were always using the latest version (as opposed to the active version) of a given font, but I guess this is not a correct hypothesis.

Comment 6

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: test case showing affected fonts in Snow Leopard

Comment 7

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: Screenshot of test case 2, running in Firefox 3.6 on Snow Leopard

Comment 8

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: Screenshot of test case 2, running in Webkit (Chrome 5.0.342.1 dev) on Snow Leopard

Comment 9

[Alex Coles]

Attachment: Screenshot showing deactivated fonts in Font Book