95586 - lrgc.ca - Font selection within HTML doesn't work.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Chris]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

Some of the measurements for quantities on this page should be in micrograms,
rather than milligrams, but the font selection to "symbol" font doesn't work, so
it shows up as an 'm', rather than the micro- symbol.
Check the HTML source...the font change is there, it just doesn't show up.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL http://www.lrgc.ca/protocol.html
2. Check the page source to confirm the font changes are there.
3. 

Actual Results:  The "Symbol" font character for the 'm' key is supposed to be
the 'micro-' symbol.  It shows up as an 'm' on this page.  Netscape 4.x and IE
show the proper symbol.  Mozilla does not.

Expected Results:  It should have showed the proper 'micro-' symbol.

Everything is available at said URL.  It's also our organization's page, so even
if I re-organize the site, I'll still make sure that page is available until
this bug is fixed.

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Peculiarly enough, Mozilla appears to be doing the right thing in this case.  
Take a look at this page: 
<http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/fontface-harmful.html> for an 
explanation of what's going on here.  I think what you'll want to do is replace 
your font-face-marked-up-mu's with the character entity reference "&#942;".  So 
your markup might look like: <p>I loaded 10 &#942;l of the sample onto the 
gel.</p>  This should produce the desired result.

Comment 2

[Shoshannah Forbes]

I tend to agree with the Comments From Christopher Hoess 2001-08-16 07:37:
not everyone has the "symbol" font installed, so counting on it to display your
page is unreliable at best.
however, using the entity refrence would allow the browser to select the correct
glyph from another font, in case the font you specified is not avalible.

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Confirming issue in the Sept 19th build.

Comment 4

[anthonyd]

not a table bug, reassigning to core owner.

Comment 5

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

See bug 33127; this is Tech Evangelism. Use Unicode entities for this purpose.

Comment 6

[Frankie]

9 months later, this bug's URL is 404. I don't see ml or µl anywhere on the site.

According to http://www.lrgc.ca/?page=genetraffic contact address is
[e-mail]

Comment 7

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 8

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

404, invalid