some unicode chars display incorrectly in firefox on linux

Bug #225828 reported by raj
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Open Library
Confirmed
Low
Edward Betts

Bug Description

The author displays incorrectly in this book: http://www.openlibrary.org/a/OL2705329A

There is a square character with 0081 in it between the "Ì" and the "ry" in the author's last name.

I am using Firefox 3b5 (default Ubuntu 8.04 browser).

This name displays fine in WebKit, compiled and running on the same machine. It also works on firefox/windows I think.

I'm attaching a screenshot.

Tags: unicode
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raj (raj-archive) wrote :
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Karen Coyle (kcoyle) wrote :

The Amazon data appears to be bad. The display on amazon looks the same as what we have.

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Edward Betts (edwardbetts) wrote :

The authors name should be "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry". I've changed the book to use OL2660551A as the author.

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webchick (webchick) wrote :

We are having problems with our chosen font (Georgia) and Unicode support. Compare the same author in this set of results: http://demo.openlibrary.org:8080/search?q=The+Little+Prince

We are using Palatino on staging.

Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: nobody → webchick
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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webchick (webchick) wrote :
Changed in openlibrary:
assignee: webchick (webchick) → Edward Betts (edward-debian)
tags: added: unicode
Changed in openlibrary:
importance: Medium → High
Changed in openlibrary:
importance: High → Critical
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George (george-archive) wrote :

This page might be handy for you to test with: http://upstream.openlibrary.org/subjects/people/madhva_13th_cent.

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Winnie (winnie-archive) wrote :
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George (george-archive) wrote :

Critical??

Changed in openlibrary:
milestone: none → general-bucket
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George (george-archive) wrote :

Not sure what a Linux Firefox display bug was marked as critical. (Feel free to dispute.)

Changed in openlibrary:
importance: Critical → Low
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