86098 - Letter-like alef symbol not supported on Mac

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Build ID: 2001061314 FizzillaCFM (Mac OS X)

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load the attached test case

Actual results:
The alef symbol shows up as a quostion mark although a suitable glyph is
included in the Symbol font.

Expected results:
Expected the alef symbol to look like the Hebrew letter alef eg. by displaying
the alef glyph from the Symbol font.

Additional information:
The alef symbol (U+2135) is categorized as a LTR letter-like symbol unlike the
Hebrew letter alef (U+05D0) which is an RTL char.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: alef symbol test

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

worksforme, linux build 2001-06-13-08 displaying on a Solaris X server.  Is this
OS X only?

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

The problem also occurs with the Mac Classic build.

Comment 4

[Peter Davis]

WORKSFORME on 2001061308 Linux

Comment 5

[tenthumbs]

I'm seeing this on a 06-15 Linux nightly with just the standard X fonts
available.

At one time, mozilla used the system symbol font for glyph substitution.
Apparently, mozilla no longer does that because it can't find other
entities.

This would seem to be a more general problem than just &alefsym.

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

mark it as future
MAcOS X and BIDI related.

Comment 7

[Frank Tang]

mark as assign

Comment 8

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

The left-to-right alef symbol denoting the first transfinite cardinal isn't
supposed to be bidi-related except that it looks the same as the Hebrew letter
alef. Also, this isn't Mac OS X specific as it also occurs in the Classic Mac
version.

Comment 9

[Frank Tang]

should be similar to 88804
 65   (0x2111 == (c))   || \
 66   (0x2118 == (c))   || \
      (0x211c == (c))   || \
+     (0x2135 == (c))   || \
 67   IN_RANGE(c, 0x2190, 0x2193) || \

Comment 10

[Frank Tang]

easy low risk fix.

Comment 11

[Kathleen :Brade]

r=brade

Comment 12

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

sr=sfraser

How many more magic symbols are we missing? Is there a way we can find them all?

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

>How many more magic symbols are we missing? Is there a way we can find them all?

there are a way in MacOS X- see 90804

Comment 14

[Chris Petersen]

Marking verified in the Sept 05th build.