On Windows 7 today's Firefox nightly. This install of Windows7 does not have any additional fonts installed. As I recall my comment 3 I had a system with the STIX fonts installed.
Firefox will use a proportional glyph if a monosapced glyph does not exist on the system. This will cause the text document to have an odd alignment on rows where Unicode monospaced glyphs do not exist on the system. I verified this assumption by opening the text document in Sublime text editor. It shows many instances where Windows does not have the correct monospaced glyph, it displays the Unicode missing glyph symbol rather than doing fallback. I believe that doing fallback is the better thing to do for web browsers. Jonathan Kew would know for sure, or possibly there are older bugs to reference? If people want monospaced line drawing to work they should have a robust monospace font installed such as the ones provided by the STIX project. http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/files/latest/download https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIX_Fonts_project http://www.stixfonts.org/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/51554 Title: Unicode combining characters don't combine properly. Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: New Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox Load this Unicode test page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt Scroll down to "Combining characters". The accents will appear to the right of the characters they're meant to appear directly over. I'm running firefox 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-0ubuntu6.06 on Ubuntu Dapper. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/51554/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
