75059 - Some HTML 4 character entities don't display correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Andreas Becker]

This bug is reported to narrow down problems found in bug 17962.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=12290
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=27246

* ⌈   question mark on 20010404 DE Win98,
            displays on N6.01 EN NT, and Mac 20010405
* ⌉   question mark on 20010404 DE Win98,
            displays on N6.01 EN NT, and Mac 20010405
* ⌊  question mark on 20010404 DE Win98,
            displays on N6.01 EN NT, and Mac 20010405
* ⌋  question mark on 20010404 DE Win98,
            displays on N6.01 EN NT, and Mac 20010405
* ­    blank on 20010404 DE Win98, 6.01 EN NT, 20010405 Mac OS
* ϑ    question mark on 20010404 DE Win98 and Mac 20010405
            wrong character being displayed on 6.01 EN NT
* ϒ    question mark on 20010404 DE Win98 and Mac 20010405
            wrong character being displayed on 6.01 EN NT
* ϖ    question mark on 20010404 DE Win98 and Mac 20010405
            wrong character being displayed on 6.01 EN NT
* ℵ   question mark on 20010404 DE Win98 and Mac 20010405
* ↵ ⇐  ⇑ ⇓ ∅ ∉ ∗ ℘ ℑ
  ℜ ≅ ⊄ ⊗ ⋅ ⌈ ⌉ ⌊ ⌋
  〈 〉
  question mark on 20010404 DE Win98, displays on N6.01 EN NT and 20010405 MacOS
* The first general punctuation marks in the attachment 12290 [details] don't display on
  20010404 DE Win98 and 20010405 MacOS
* The last table in the attachment 12290 [details] don't display on 20010404 DE Win98 and
  20010405 MacOS

Comment 1

[Bruce Heerssen]

’ renders as a "y" with an umlat instead of as an apostrophe.
Build 2001122108 / Linux-Mandrake 8.1

Comment 2

[Bruce Heerssen]

Local testing (on my workstation) shows that ’ works fine, but it does not
at http://alistapart.com

I am trying to figure out why. I'll post if I can dig anything up.

Comment 3

[Bruce Heerssen]

ok, this seems to happen when using georgia or arial font families. Perhaps
more. Please examine http://members.evolt.org/bheerssen/apostrophe.html for a
demonstration.

Incidentally, I have noticed the same behaviour on windows platforms also.

Comment 4

[Don J. Rude]

I am seeing what is noted in comment 2 on Linux (Debian, Woody with self
compiled 2.4.18 kernel) with both the 1.0.0 release as well as the 1.1.alpha
release (build ID 2002061108). I've tried messing with my font settings quite a
bit with no success. Times, Arial, whatever I get apostrophe's that render as
'Y-umlat'. http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/ is another example where I see
"Tomorrow's Media Today" (and other plurals) rendered as "Tomorrow’s Media
Today". On the Apple page it is actually character 146 (’), while I have an
e-mail in my Inbox that uses character 8217 (’)

One desk over from me a Debian Mozilla package (with anti-aliased fonts) doesn't
show this symptom, indeed can not be produced at all.

Comment 5

[Don J. Rude]

Attachment: Prefs to turn on A.A. fonts

Here is my own temporary work around. Looking at what Debian installs I add
some settings to my prefs (via user.js) to force anti-aliased fonts to turn on.
Now I can select "Agfa monotype*" fonts. Using the same fonts as before + AA
and the (sort of) apostrophe character renders as expected.

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 277048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Frank Tang]

what a hack. I have not touch mozilla code for 2 years. I didn't read these bugs
for 2 years. And they are still there. Just close them as won't fix to clean up.

Comment 8

[Travis Chase]

Mass Reassign Please excuse the spam

Comment 9

[Travis Chase]

Mass Re-opening Bugs Frank Tang Closed on Wensday March 02 for no reason, all
the spam is his fault feel free to tar and feather him

Comment 10

[Travis Chase]

Reassigning Franks old bugs to Jungshik Shin for triage - Sorry for spam

Comment 11

[Wolfgang Uhr]

Hello

Let me confirm this error message but only reduced to the title-tag http://awasteofwords.com/

Here the ⋅-character will be shown as a rectangle (non printable char).

Best regards
Wolfgang

Comment 12

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Our gfx is way better these days.