[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 55935] New: System font fall back behavior

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55935

           Summary: System font fall back behavior
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://crbug.com/62435
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.5
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: CSS
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: bashi at chromium.org


See http://crbug.com/62435 in more detail.

In some ports, when a system font fallback is performed to render some Unicode characters such as PILE OF POO (U+1F4A9), WebKit renders the character by using the last resort glyph even if there are fonts which contain appropriate glyph for the character. It might be worth to render the character by using appropriate glyph if it possible. Here is some notes:

- FireFox renders these characters appropriately even if the page doesn't specify font families for the characters.
- As far as I checked, mac/win WebKit ports render the PILE OF POO by using the last resort glyph if system font fallback occurred.
- Chromium linux port renders the character by using appropriate glyph (if it is available).

I'd like WebKit folks' opinion about it.

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