Posted by Philip Semanchuk on 06/12/06 23:42

In article <Pine.WNT.4.64.0606122321420.2068@ZORIN>,
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> > If you spend a lot of time on that site and the problem is really
> > annoying to you, you might want to consider grabbing a copy of Opera.
>
> I don't see the point in recommending a specific web browser. Pretty
> much any WWW-compatible browser will do the job nowadays. As I say,
> MSIE is today's cripple that needs a helping hand - but, just like the
> obsolete NN4.* before it, the task is solve-able, for any reader who
> has the slightest interest in the content.

I thought the OP stated that FF and IE weren't displaying the symbols
correctly for him, and I wanted him to be aware that there was an
alternative.

> > If it wasn't for Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar extension
> > for FF, Opera might be my main browser.
>
> You're giving the entirely unwarranted impression that Firefox (or
> Moz/Seamonkey) could not do this job. That's completely wrong, as my
> experience shows. What basis do you have for supposing that it can't?
> I'd like to work out what you're getting wrong.

I beg your pardon, I'm not supposing anything at all. I'm reporting
exactly what I've experienced. As I stated to the OP and also in
response to Jonathan Little's simplified example, the characters display
as horizontal and vertical bars for me using FF 1.5.0.4 under OS X
10.3.9.

Bugzilla reveals that this has been an on-off issue with Mozilla on the
Mac since 2003:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212745

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Philip
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