Op 11-7-2019 om 14:01 schreef Dirk Fieldhouse: > On 11/07/19 06:08, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> Check out the umlauts here: >> >> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/science/skull-neanderthal-human-europe-greece.html> >> >> >> For some reason, SM displays them to the right of the target letter, >> although the source code displays them correctly. It's because the >> author has used "u" plus the combining umlaut rather than the single >> letter "ü," thus: "ü." > > Interesting article, anyway. > > The answer is in this Bugzilla item. > > "the combining ... character [is not supported in the selected font]; so > it falls back to a different font ..., and positioning of diacritics > does not generally work across font-change boundaries." > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/user_profile?user_id=329583> > > This happens in this case because of an apparently unreported bug in SM.
This also happen in latest Firefox 68.0. Anyway, I don't think it's a browser issue, but a website issue, if neither Firefox and Internet Explorer display the page correctly, unless you specify to not let the page override the font... Onno _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
