[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 38377] mathml font display problems on linux

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38377


Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|WebKit Qt                   |MathML
                 CC|                            |alex at milowski.com,
                   |                            |mrobinson at webkit.org




--- Comment #2 from Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org>  2010-08-04 18:26:00 PST ---
(changed the component to MathML as this is a bug on more than just Qt)

I spent a little time looking at this today. At least part of the rendering problems are due to differences between the Symbol font on OS X machines and the symbol font included on Linux machines. The mathml.css files specifies the font for the math element thusly:

font-family: Symbol, "Times New Roman";

The OS X Symbol font has no glyph specified for normal ASCII alphabetic characters, so 'x' (unicode 0x78) is drawn using Times New Roman.  The Linux symbol replaces ASCII characters with equivalents from the Greek alphabet, so 'x' produces ξ.

Unfortunately, I don't think the Symbol font is suitable for platforms other than OS X.

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