Bug 21539 – Some Greek unicode accented text displays incorrectly

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: New Bugs

When configured for Unicode data entry (via http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/dispconf?url=resolveform%3Flang%3Dgreek then set "Greek Display" to "Unicode (UTF-8)", unicode Greek text is not displayed correctly (other browsers do display this correctly). A sample of the output can be seen here:
http://www.shields-online.net/webkit_unicode.html
There are many small boxes within the Greek unicode text which do not show up in Camino or other browsers on the same system.

Can you please list the steps to reproduce the bug? I am not sure how to see what is wrong.

Created attachment 24301 [details]
Image showing wrong and right display of unicode

Image showing same page rendered using Safari (first line) and Camino (second line). Render is of the sample page http://www.shields-online.net/webkit_unicode.html.

I've added an image of the difference I see in Webkit/Safari against Camino from the sample page (http://www.shields-online.net/webkit_unicode.html). I'm not aware that there are any additional steps needed to cause the problem to display, although it could be font related (except that Camino works where Webkit doesn't on the same system with the same fonts installed).

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I cannot reproduce this on Mac OS X 10.5.5 with shipping Safari/WebKit.

I've just done a clean install of 10.5.5 and tried Safari and the problem persists, so too with the latest nightly. Can you attach a screenshot of the test page http://www.shields-online.net/webkit_unicode.html so I can compare fonts and details?

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Created attachment 24453 [details]
A good screenshot

Thanks: checking the attachment I note the difference in fonts and changed the default font settings which resolved the issue.