Bug 130957 - khtml fails to find the glyphs for certain common characters
Summary: khtml fails to find the glyphs for certain common characters
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47682
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml renderer (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2006-07-17 04:30 UTC by Stephan Sokolow
Modified: 2006-07-17 04:44 UTC (History)
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Description Stephan Sokolow 2006-07-17 04:30:17 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9) 
OS:                Linux

On my system, khtml fails to find the glyphs for certain common characters even when correctly encoded. (especially typographical punctuation such as quotes and single-character ellipses)

Because Konqueror doesn't freeze for up to a minute, I know it isn't searching for alternate fonts to pull them from. (It also helps that Firefox does display them properly without having to resort to font substitution)

Interestingly, they do display properly when bold if the site uses something like " :hover { font-weight: bold; }" in the CSS.

Below I will attempt to provide some example characters.
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Comment 1 Maksim Orlovich 2006-07-17 04:44:59 UTC 
Qt4 should fix it..

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47682 ***