617607 - The "cross" symbol, which displays fine in IE and Chrome, looks like an apostrophe in FireFox 3 and 4b

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33127

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

Description

[James "Dexter" Akula]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b7) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b7
Build Identifier: 4.0b7

Other browsers correctly render my attempt to make a "times" symbol, but FireFox does not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached HTML file
2. Look for the sentence that begins "The 1% chow mimics in a rat dam a dose..." and note that after the 10 and 100 there are no times symbols
Actual Results:  
You will find apostrophes

Expected Results:  
You should see times symbols

Comment 1

[James "Dexter" Akula]

Attachment: File showing the problem

In the sentence "The 1% chow mimics in a rat dam a dose..." after the "10" and the "100" there should be times symbols, not apostrophes.  Opening this page in either IE or Chrome renders it correctly.

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

The proper way to embed textual symbols in HTML documents is to use Unicode.

 - There are two ways to put a Unicode character in your document:
 -- First, you can write the HTML using a Unicode-enabled text editor, either
compose the character, or to cut and paste it from another document.
 -- Second, you can use the &#nnnn; entities to enter the Unicode symbol's
number.

 - http://www.alanwood.net/demos lists some Unicode equivalents to Symbol and
Wingdings fonts.  I don't know if such a resource exists for Wingdings 2 or
other fonts.