Closed Bug 16872 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

• doesn't render on Linux

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 454

People

(Reporter: akkzilla, Assigned: erik)

References

()

Details

(Keywords: platform-parity)

Attachments

(1 file)

The last line of the given URL contains the entity • (a valid entity according to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html). On Windows, this renders as a bullet, but on Linux, it doesn't render at all. I know Linux gfx can render bullets since it does so for unordered lists (so does this mean this is a layout bug rather than a compositor bug? I'm guessing compositor).
I suspect that layout uses graphics primitives to draw bullets rather than fonts. However, • should use the appropriate character using the correct CSS font selection rules. I think it's more likely to display on windows because it's one of those characters in the 128-160 range on the Windows character set that doesn't exist in iso-8859-1. Therefore, it's probably unavailable on your Linux. If you have truetype fonts from windows, then this could probably fixed by telling your font server about the windows-1252 (or whichever it is) character encoding. If anything, I think this should be a font selection (i18n) bug. Mozilla could (and perhaps should) be configured to use backups for certain important characters - the nice quotes, bullets, etc. It might also be nice to encourage authors of font servers to make it easier to map windows fonts correctly (i.e., do it automatically in something like ttmkfdir).
Assignee: beard → erik
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M15
Perhaps we need to use a fallback for •. E.g. Latin-1's 0xB7?
Blocks: 17962
Keywords: pp
Moving all of my M15s to M16. Please add comments if you disagree.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Summary: [PP] • doesn't render on Linux → • doesn't render on Linux
bull, nice quotes, mdash and ndash are all part of windows-1252, so I'm marking this bug a duplicate of bug 454. ­ is not part of windows-1252 (it's in iso-8859-1). If it displays incorrectly, please log a separate bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 454 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
No longer blocks: 17962
cleaning up: VERIFY duplicate
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.

Attachment

General

Creator:
Created:
Updated:
Size: