Bug 14637

Summary: Text using Symbol font is displayed incorrectly
Product: WebKit Reporter: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap>
Component: TextAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: Normal CC: jshin, mitz, mmaxfield
Priority: P3 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://www.mccme.ru/mmmf-lectures/books/books/books.php?book=20&page=2
Bug Depends on: 22339    
Bug Blocks:    

Alexey Proskuryakov
Reported 2007-07-17 06:10:20 PDT
From https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233474 The text at bug URL uses a Windows-only trick to display mathematical symbols: <i>A</i> <font face="symbol">Ì</font> <i>B</i> Where Ì is an 8-bit code for "SUBSET OF" in this font. I'm not sure if this problem deserves being fixed, but it is clearly a problem.
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mitz
Comment 1 2008-12-31 09:47:18 PST
Jungshik Shin
Comment 2 2012-02-07 10:56:09 PST
A lot of MS-Word-exported html files have this problem as well: They have : <font face="webdings">abc 123</font> : to get some dingbats <font face="Symbol">S</font> : to get Greek Capital Sigma
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 3 2017-10-26 17:10:59 PDT
“Symbol” does not support the codepoints associated with the latin alphabet.
Myles C. Maxfield
Comment 4 2017-10-26 17:12:22 PDT
The Mozilla bug is WONTFIX, and I agree with that assessment.
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