[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 201141] New: Verdana font from MS Office won't render correctly in Safari 12

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201141

            Bug ID: 201141
           Summary: Verdana font from MS Office won't render correctly in
                    Safari 12
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Safari 12
          Hardware: Macintosh
                OS: macOS 10.14
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: CSS
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: craig.hockenberry at gmail.com

Created attachment 377252

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Screenshot of problems

In Safari 12, Verdana will render incorrectly if version 5.02 from 2008 is installed by Microsoft Office. Safari will only render correctly with version 5.01x from 2006 that is installed by the operating system.

The fonts that don't work are in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Verdana*.ttf. The fonts that do work are in /Library/Fonts/Verdana*.ttf. (I only confirmed this but with the Regular face, so I'm assuming this issue will be a problem with the other faces.)

The newer version of Verdana works fine in other macOS apps, including Chrome. See the attached screenshot with the WhatFont extension showing that Verdana is not being picked up from the font-family CSS.

This bug is also very difficult to work around: both of the versions of Verdana are "locked" in Font Book, so enabling or disabling fonts isn't possible. I had to use the Terminal and sudo to manually move the offending file from /Library/Fonts/Microsoft to /Library/Fonts Disabled/Microsoft.

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