> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:27:02 -0800 > From: David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> > Cc: naenag...@gmail.com, unicode@unicode.org > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> It's not standards compliant. If it doesn't work on IE, and sometimes > >> doesn't work on Firefox, then it hardly qualifies as a solution in my > >> book, especially as I'm getting "nivahal heøa" as the label on its tag > > > > FWIW, the latest Firefox 8 has no problems displaying that page, > > including the labels on the tabs. > > I'm running Iceweasel 8, and it displays the tabs as Latin. I would > consider it a bug to do otherwise; the font on those tabs should be > under my control.
It _is_ under your control. But what do you expect to happen if you select a font that doesn't cover the characters on the page, or force the browser to use an encoding different from what the page author intended? Selecting a font that cannot handle the tricks played by that page is no different.
