Bug 14637

Summary:	Text using Symbol font is displayed incorrectly
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Alexey Proskuryakov <ap>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	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:

Description Alexey Proskuryakov 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.

Comment 1 mitz 2008-12-31 09:47:18 PST

<rdar://problem/3248204>

Comment 2 Jungshik Shin 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

Comment 3 Myles C. Maxfield 2017-10-26 17:10:59 PDT

“Symbol” does not support the codepoints associated with the latin alphabet.

Comment 4 Myles C. Maxfield 2017-10-26 17:12:22 PDT

The Mozilla bug is WONTFIX, and I agree with that assessment.