RESOLVED INVALID 44393
Rendering of non-proportional characters is not honored. 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44393
Summary Rendering of non-proportional characters is not honored.
Fotis Georgatos
Reported 2010-08-22 02:31:45 PDT
Hi, That URL is just one of many, containing many examples whereby the display problem exists. Namely, characters that should be aligned vertically in the following test page, they are not: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt This has been verified to happen with both these webkit versions: 533.16 (Safari default macosx 10.6) AND 534.6+ (latest webkit) A related bug may be that rendering of the following page on mobile devices (IPHONE, ANDROID) does not appear correctly on the line containing "node state" (and only that line): http://ganglia.lcg.cscs.ch/qtop_eco.html I think this suggests that the problem can be isolated to the rendering of the horizontal dash: - Interestingly, this bug DOES NOT manifest itself on macbook' Safari etc. cheers, Fotis
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2010-08-23 12:15:37 PDT
There is no fixed width font that contains all these characters. So, the browser uses multiple fonts, which naturally have differing metrics. I think that there is no bug here, there is no reason to expect vertical alignment. I'm seeing the same behavior with Firefox on Mac OS X, and with IE on Windows. A solution is to use HTML for formatted content, not plain text.
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