User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.1 (like Gecko) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4 The font-family specification can contain a list of fonts to search for a specific character glyph. At least in firefox 1.5b1 on Linux, it appears that the list is not used, but instead the "no glyph" placeholder rectangle is inserted when the first font in the list does not contain the character. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a svg text element with e.g. font-family="Times,Symbol" 2. Insert the unicode representation of a greek gamma or nu character 3. render this file in firefox Actual Results: The rectangle character is displayed, indicating that no appropriate glyph could be found. Expected Results: The indicated greek or symbol character should have been displayed (and it is when "Symbol" is the first or only element in this font-family list, so this is not a general font problem on my system)

Does it work outside SVG on the same system (say in HTML with style="font-family: Times, Symbol")? I seem to recall that the Symbol font had some major issues in terms of Unicode font stuff....

How about specifying a font with Greek letters other than Symbol?

TrueType Times Roman has greek letters, BTW.

Show be OK now that text display has been converted to thebes.