878725 - Greek Characters are not displayed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[ThomasS]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512193848

Steps to reproduce:

I opened following URL: http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griechisches_Alphabet


Actual results:

Some of the listed greek characters are not displayed. Instead grey boxes are shown.


Expected results:

The characters should be displayed like in the desktop version of firefox (tested on FF for latest ubuntu)

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Which device, Android version and build of Firefox are you using? This probably depends on the phone and fonts available. On my HTC One and Galaxy S4 I don't see this issue.

Can you also attach a screenshot?

Comment 2

[ThomasS]

Cell: Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-I9505;Android 4.2.2; Build JDQ39.I9505XXUAMDM; Kernel 3.4.0-526204
Firefox: latest from Google Play Store

Screenshot: Sry - the key combo 'home + on/off' does not make screenshots on my s4. got grey rectangles instead of characters. For example the character for Beta is displayed in upper and lower case - but not the alternative char (in column 'Var').

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Yes, this definitely depends on the fonts available on the device. It looks like neither Droid Sans nor Roboto include "full" Greek character support; they only have the basic (modern) alphabet and single-accented vowels, but lack archaic and variant characters and many of the classical accented letters. The same is true of the Open Sans that we ship as part of Firefox/Android.

Hence, the variant characters, accented forms, etc., will only display if the device vendor has included an additional font with enhanced character coverage.