Bug 33127 says that "Symbol" should not render Latin content as Greek, but it does in fact do this on Mac OS X, as seen in the given URL. It should render as "opaque", but renders with the Symbol font in Greek. This is a discrepancy between platforms.

(This is a duplicate of a bug that the developers couldn't reproduce.)

Is this related to bug 33258? (Neither Ian nor I can turn up the irreproducible bug.)

Yes, it is the same as bug 33258. I am not sure what it is they claim they fixed. Is it supposed to display as Greek or not? Is it a regression or have they laxed bug 33127 for the Mac?

Moving back to 33258. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33258 ***

Reopening this, since I can't even submit a comment to the bug 33258 thread (says I am trying to change the op_sys field to All, which isn't true).

This is actually a bug for me on Linux as well, but that could be because I have a font that's set up to lie.

screen shot please

Same behavior on MacOS 9.2.2.

Any relation to bug 179945?

Nah, bug 179945 is about breaking the Unicode standard for "de facto standards" in order to satisfy a "top embedding customer" (a.k.a. Netscape Communications, a subsidiary of AOL-TW). It is not yet implemented, AFAIK (and should have no effect on Mozilla anyway). As stated in a comment to that bug, Symbol isn't even working correctly, rendering completely wrong glyphs when referenced as Unicode code points. See <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=106164&action=view> for an example with card symbols. Espcially, look at the source for this. &#9829;&#9830;&#9824;&#9827; are not supposed to be box drawing elements but filled card symbols, as can be seen in any other Mac OS X app and in the character palette (Miscellaneous Symbols block in Unicode). I will provide a screen dump of this, as well as of Greek rendering for Roman characters.

This is a screen dump of <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=106164&action=view>, showing wrong glyphs drawn with Symbol. As for <http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/bft/bft_image_trans.html>, this no longer erroneously gives Greek text where it says "Opaque". Whether this is because the bug has been fixed somehow or because of OS updates or something else, I can't say. Still, Symbol is fscked up when used by Mozilla, as shown above. Implementing bug 179945 will not make things better... either do Unicode or let's pretend it is 1996 again.

Niklas, this appears to WorkForMe using FizzillaMach/2003021203. Do you concur?

I can reproduce this with 2003011603 classic build on MacOS 9.2.2 and 10.2.5. But WFM with 2003043003-Mach-O/MacOS 10.2.5. This should be WFM.

Resolving WFM per comment 13.